INS Visakhapatnam, INS Deepak reach Bahrain for joint naval exercise

INS Visakhapatnam and INS Deepak on Monday reached Bahrain, Iran, for professional interactions with Royal Bahrain Naval Force (RBNF). se professional interactions will be conducted in several domains including maritime operations, and joint exercises. This aims at enhancing best practices aimed at enhancing cooperation and strengning ties between both navies.

India-Iran relations span millennia marked by meaningful interactions. India and Iran established diplomatic ties on March 15, 1950. In dition to embassy in Tehran, India has two consulates in country. One is in Bandar Abbas and or in Zahedan according to External affairs ministry.

Indian Navy professional interactions with Iran and docking of INS Trikand

Indian Naval Ship (INS) Trikand received a warm welcome upon its arrival at Bandar Abbas, port city of Iran on Sunday.  Indian Naval ship is on a visit to Iran as part of Indian Navy’s operational deployment towards cooperative maritime engment with regional countries, as per a report by ANI. Indian Navy on its Twitter handle said that INS Trikand is on a visit to Bandar Abbas, Iran as part of its operational deployment towards cooperative, maritime engment with regional countries and ship received a warm welcome from commander 1st district, IRIN.

se interactions will include joint operations and participation of two Indian ships INS Visakhapatnam and INS Deepak during interactions. INS Visakhapatnam is first of Visakhapatnam class stealth-guided missile destroyers of Indian Navy.  ship was commissioned on 21st vember 2021, and keel of Vishakapatnam was laid on 12th October 2013 and was launched on 20th April 2015 at Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai.

INS Deepak is a Deepak class fleet tanker built by Fincantieri. It was launched on 13th February 2010. It can carry 17,900 tonnes of cargo including 15,500 tonnes of Liquid cargo and 500 tonnes of solid cargo. It can carry 16 cargo containers on upper deck and is equipped with an eight-bed hospital, with laboratory and X-Ray facilities. modern cargo handling facility on board ship enables transfer of heavy solid cargo via a 30 tonnes capacity deck crane and simultaneous fueling of multiple ships at sea and can refuel 1500 tonnes per hour.

professional interactions will deepen bilateral, diplomatic and military relations between both countries as PM Modi has a telephonic conversation with Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi and discussed bilateral and military ties. two leers reiterated ir commitment to realizing full potential of Chabahar Port as a connectivity hub. Both leers also discussed cooperation at multilateral forums including expansion of BRICS and looked forward to ir meeting on margins of upcoming BRICS summit in South Africa from August 22-24 and also future joint ops between both nations.