The cooperation between the navies of India and the U.S. is one of the most dynamic and significant components of the bilateral defence ties, India’s envoy here has said, underlining that the defence sector has emerged as a major pillar between the two countries, especially in the context of the Indo-Pacific.
Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu’s remarks came during the historic visit of INS Satpura to San Diego last week.
INS Satpura is an indigenously designed and built 6000-tonne guided missile stealth frigate equipped to seek and destroy adversaries in air, surface, and underwater. Reflective of the growing defence ties between India and the United States, this is for the first time that an Indian Naval Warship docked itself on the U.S. West Coast and maybe two decades after that an Indian ship came to the United States.
