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For the first time, India and Germany will undertake a bilateral Navy exercise from April 8 off Kochi in the Arabian Sea.
According to officials at the German embassy, New Delhi, taking forward the defence cooperation between India and Germany, the German Navy will be visiting the Port of Kochi and the Indian Naval Command South from April 5 to 8, 2008. The visit comes in the context of the Indo-German Defence Cooperation Agreement signed in 2006.
Three German warships—F220 HAMBURG and F211 KOLN, both missile Frigates and A1411 BERLIN, a Naval support vessel—are to visit India, the officials added.
The German Naval flotilla, the first ever to visit Indian waters is being led by Rear Admiral F Bollow, who is the Flag Officer Commanding 2nd German flottia.
Though Indian warships have conducted war games with nuclear carriers and submarines from France and US as well with warships from UK, Russia and Singapore, this would be their first interaction with German ships. The Germans in recent years have made major strides in building up a modern Naval flotilla.
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