What was planned as a simple passage exercise between aircraft carrier INS Viraat and the American USS Ronald Reagan supercarrier three days ago off Sri Lanka spontaneously became a full-fledged, joint-maritime war game. A detailed operational report on this “surprising level of Indo-US inter-operability between the two Navies at short notice” will shortly be given to the Defence Ministry.
After just three days of planning, the two vessels were to rendezvous in the Indian Ocean for simple communication drills, but things escalated. The two carrier groups spontaneously executed dissimilar air combat manoeuvres with F/A-18 Super Hornets and Sea Harriers, visit board search and seizure (VBSS) missions, cross-deck helicopter missions with Sea Hawks and Sea Kings and probably most significantly, over-the-horizon targeting (OTHT). Not in the original plan, these drills usually take months of planning.
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