Consolidating synergy and interoperability was achieved during Malabar 2020 and now INS Shivalik with integral helicopter and Indian Navy’s Long Range Maritime Patrol Aircraft P8I participated in a Passage Exercise with the US Navy’s USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group on 28 March 2021 in the Eastern Indian Ocean Region. In a first, IAF fighters were also included in the Exercise affording the IAF an opportunity to practice Air Interception/Air Defence with the USN.
