Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Indian warships conducted exercise with US Navy’s Nimitz, world’s largest aircraft carrier

Indian warships conducted exercise with US Navy’s Nimitz, world’s largest aircraft carrier

Indian warships are conducting an exercise with the US Navy’s nuclear-powered USS Nimitz  the world’s largest warship  off the coast of Andaman & Nicobar Islands Monday and Tuesday, a development that comes amid tensions with China at the LAC in Eastern Ladakh. 

The Navy’s exercise is on similar lines of another that it had carried out with the Japanese Navy last month. 

The USS Nimitz, named after the US World War II Pacific fleet commander Chester W. Nimitz, is manned by around 6,000 naval personnel and carries nearly 90 aircraft, which include F/A-18F Super Hornets, F/A-18E Super Hornets and MH 60 helicopters