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SIMBEX 2009: Singapore, India Participate in Annual Marine Exercise in Andaman Sea

2009-03-25 Aiming to attain interoperability and train personnel in manoeuvres during war, Indian and Singaporean navies launched their annual bilateral exercise SIMBEX-2009 in the Andaman Sea.

Being the 16th in the series of exercises that began in 1994, this year's edition of SIMBEX would extend from the Andaman Sea to the South China Sea and would go on till April 2, Naval officers said here.

The Indian Navy is fielding vessels from its Eastern Fleet, which are currently on a South-East and East Asian deployment. These ships are bound for the Chinese port-city of Qingdao in the Yellow Sea, where they would participate in Chinas first International Fleet Review next month.

"Both navies will, as usual, field front line surface and sub-surface combatants for the SIMBEX. This will be in addition to fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft from both sides," officers said.

An acronym for Singapore India Maritime Bilateral Exercise, SIMBEX was formalised a decade-and-half ago when Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) ships began training in Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) with the Indian Navy in 1994.

As such, they have graduated from purely training-oriented ASW exercises to complex multi-dimensional exercises, involving multiple facets of operations at sea.

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