Exercise Zayed-Talwar: Two Indian Naval Ships, INS Visakhapatnam and INS Trikand, arrived in Dubai on August 8, 2023, under the command of Rear Admiral Vineet McCarty, Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet, to engage in a bilateral Naval Maritime Partnership Exercise with the UAE Navy.
The bilateral Maritime Partnership Exercise Exercise Zayed-Talwar, which took place today after two days of thorough planning, intended to improve interoperability and synergy between the two navies through cross-training on tactics, techniques, and procedures while creating stronger professional connections.
India-UAE Bilateral Naval Exercise Zayed-Talwar
Rear Admiral McCarty met with Brigadier Abdullah Farj Al Mehairbi, the Deputy Commander of UAE Naval Forces at Abu Dhabi Naval Command, during his tour. They decided to increase cooperation between the two Navies in order to collaboratively address the common challenges of piracy, smuggling, and human trafficking, as well as to improve maritime security and conduct cooperative humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations as needed.
The Admiral also met with H.E. Shri Sunjay Sudhir, India’s Ambassador to the UAE, and briefed him on the scope and conduct of the exercise, as well as the road map for Navy-to-Navy cooperation between India and the UAE.
The Ambassador emphasised that the presence of these two ships for the naval exercise demonstrates our strengthening defence relations with the UAE, which are led by our countries’ Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
INS Visakhapatnam, commanded by Captain Ashok Rao, is one of the Indian Navy’s largest operational destroyers and a totally indigenous warship built by Mazagaon Docks Limited. Captain Pramod G Thomas commands the NS Trikand, an advanced stealth frigate that was commissioned in 2013. The ship is a modern warship with cutting-edge technology interwoven into every aspect of its construction to make it more stable, stealthy, swift, and formidable.
India-UAE Relations
According to the Ministry of External Affairs, India and the UAE established diplomatic ties in 1972, with the UAE opening its Embassy in Delhi in 1972 and India opening its Embassy in Abu Dhabi in 1973. The traditionally strong bilateral relations between India and the UAE were boosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UAE on August 16-17, 2015, which marked the start of a new strategic relationship between the two countries.
Bilateral defence cooperation between India and the UAE has grown in tandem with other facets of the bilateral relationship. The two countries have had regular high-level and functional-level interactions. Both navies’ ships have conducted port calls on a regular basis to strengthen bilateral defence cooperation.
Exercise Zayed-Talwar
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