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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Indo-French naval exercise to be held in Bay of Bengal

After bringing in Nuclear carrier Charles de Gaulle and Nuclear submarines to Indian waters, the French Navy proposes to field its largest Amphibious assault ship Mistral in the war games with Indian Navy to be held early next month.

Mistral, 32,300 tonnes displacement warship would be accompanied by Missile frigates and stealth ships in the Varuna-2008 exercises to be held in Bay of Bengal off India's Eastern Sea board in which amphibious landings would form a major component, Naval sources said.

The visit of the amphibious warship to Indian waters assumes singificance as Indian Navy has expressed interest in the design of the Ship Landing dock.

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