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Biggest India Sri Lanka Naval Exercise Begins

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Biggest India Sri Lanka Naval Exercise Begins

India & Sri Lanka launched their biggest joint naval exercise off the strategic Trincomalee Navy base today with the participation of over a dozen ships, helicopters and one maritime reconnaissance aircraft.

SLN headquarters told The Island that the five-day exercise codenamed ‘SLINEX II’ would enhance relations between the two navies and help them share experience, skills and expertise.

Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa will visit Trincomalee to meet officers and men involved in the exercise.

The elite Special Boat Squadron of the Sri Lanka Navy too, will take part in the exercise.

The Indian fleet comprises one Destroyer (INS Ravijay), one Frigate (INS Shivlik), one missile corvette ((INS Khanjar), one Landing Ship Tank (INS Gharial), two Fast Attack Craft (Cheriyam and Koradivh) and one maritime patrol aircraft.

Sri Lanka will deploy two Offshore Patrol Vessels (SLNS Sagara and SLNS Samudura), a Fast Missile Vessel (SLNS Nandimihra), two Fast attack Vessels (Prathapa and Ranajaya) and six Fast Attack Craft.

During External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris’ three-day visit to New Delhi last May, the two countries agreed to enhance cooperation in the energy sector and to promote dialogue on security and defence issues of relevance to bilateral relations.

Government sources said that both countries were keen to strengthen relations between the two militaries, particularly between the two navies to prevent possible incursions by pirates.


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Great news. Good for Indo-lankan relationship.
Indian and SL navy worked closely during the LTTE civil war to blocked any arms shipments. I feel this relationship needs to be carried forward in peace times too.
 
SLINEX II will enhance relations between the two navies......

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Large-scale India, Lanka naval exercise from Monday

NEW DELHI: India and Sri Lanka are all set to hold a major joint naval combat exercise off Trincomalee next week, as part of New Delhi's continuing intensive diplomatic and military engagement with Colombo.

Defence ministry officials say the six-day exercise called "SLINEX", which kicks off on Monday, will see the two navies deploying at least four warships each. "We have held naval exercises with Sri Lanka in the past but this one will be on a slightly larger scale," said an official.

India over the last several years has trained thousands of Sri Lankan personnel at its military institutions ranging from the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairengte (Mizoram) to the School of Artillery at Devlali (Maharashtra), apart from providing specialised naval courses in gunnery, navigation, communication and anti-submarine warfare.

The strategy to provide arms and military training, coupled with intelligence sharing and `coordinated' naval patrolling, undertaken even when the Sri Lankan forces were battling the LTTE, has been primarily aimed to counter China's ever-growing strategic inroads into the island nation.

Though India trains soldiers from several countries, ranging from Maldives, Mauritius and Mongolia to Botswana, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, the facilities extended to Sri Lanka are much more. The premier Indian Military Academy at Dehradun, for instance, has even run `special courses' to train hundreds of "gentlemen cadets" from Sri Lanka.


Large-scale India, Lanka naval exercise from Monday - The Times of India
 

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