INDRA (naval exercise)

INDRA NAVY is a joint, biennial military exercise conducted by India and Russia starting in 2003.

[2] The end of the Cold War which brought greatly reduced defense budgets saw a collapse in ship building and naval activity in Russia throughout the 1990s.

This changed in 2001, when a contingent of naval ships, including anti-submarine warfare vessels and a tanker docked at Mumbai.

[3] In April 2003, nine warships of the Russian navy departed from their bases at Sevastopol in the Black Sea and Vladivostok for the Indian Ocean.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov proposed joint naval exercises to be held later that year.