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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (10155)	12/21/1999 2:09:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

India ends largest naval wargames in Arabian Sea Dec 20 1999 21:14 IST NEW DELHI, Dec 20 (AFP) - The Indian navy and airforce on Monday ended their largest joint military exercise in the Arabian Sea, the Press Trust of India reported. The 10-day wargame, codenamed "Operation Galahad" and involving 30 naval ships, four submarines and 30 airforce warplanes was the largest maritime exercise conducted so far by Indian defence forces, officials said. The exercise also involved the landing of marine commandos from submarines and airborne aircraft on the Indian coast, Rear Admiral J.S. Bedi told reporters in Bombay. "It also included deep-strikes over the sea with latest aircraft in the inventory of the air force and the navy," Bedi said of his maritime fleet of Sea Harrier jets and Russian MiGs and French Mirage-2000s of the airforce. "The tactical exercise in the north Arabian Sea was to validate and revalidate certain operational concepts and procedures developed after operational alert during the Kargil crisis," the Indian admiral added. India launched a full-scale military offensive in May to dislodge hundreds of Muslim guerrillas and what it called Pakistani army regulars from the Kargil mountain peaks of its zone of divided Kashmir. The Indian navy also went on a full alert during the 10-week battle that claimed the lives of more than 1,000 combatants in Himalayan Kargil and brought India and Pakistan dangerously close to a fourth war. An air force spokesman said the air-sea wargame was also to hone the defences of India's maritime trade routes. "The exercise was a major event to validate sea-line communications through which the country's trade is operated is clear and can offer a strong resistance in case of a crisis," Commodore M.P. Taneja of the air force said. India and Pakistan, who have fought three wars since 1947, zealously patrol their respective maritime boundaries in the Arabian Sea off Bombay.