Indian Navy deploys four Dornier aircraft in Singapore
June 14th, 2010 - 10:13 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Jun 14 (IANS) The Indian Navy Monday deployed four Dornier aircraft for a four-day surveillance exercise in Singaporean waters, where four Indian warships are currently operating.
“The Dornier aircraft have been deployed in Singapore and will remain there for three to four days to carry out coordinated surveillance sorties,” Indian Navy spokesperson Commander P.V.S. Satish told IANS.
He said the transport-cum-patrol aircraft would assist the four Indian Navy ships which are currently in Singapore on their way back home after over a month-long deployment in east Asian waters.
The Indian Navy’s guided missile destroyers INS Rana and INS Ranjit and two other ships, missile corvette INS Kulish and fleet tanker INS Jyoti are in Singapore.
The four aircraft would participate in exercises the Indian Navy would be conducting with its Singaporean counterpart.
The ships, during the deployment, have undertaken passage exercises with the navies of various countries including Indonesia, Australia and Singapore.
The ships also made port calls at Haiphong in Vietnam, Manila in Phillipines, Muara in Brunei, Bangkok in Thailand, Fremantle in Australia and Port Kelang in Malaysia.
The warships of the Visakhapatnam-based Eastern Fleet based are sailing under the Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet, Rear Admiral P.N. Murugesan.
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