Indian Navy Chief, Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, convened high-level engagements with Admiral Samuel J Paparo, Commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, and several other senior US Navy officials. Discussions were held regarding reviewing the important pillars of the India-US defence cooperation.
India’s Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) is on an official visit to the United States. The visit and these series of engagements are meant to strengthen maritime security and maritime cooperation, enhancing interoperability, and expanding avenues for operational engagements across the Indo-Pacific, the officials said on Saturday.
"During his ongoing official visit to the #UnitedStates, Adm Dinesh K Tripathi, #CNS, held a series of high-level engagements with Adm Samuel J Paparo, Commander @INDOPACOM; Adm Stephen T Koehler, Commander @USPacificFleet; and Lt Gen James F Glynn, Commander U.S. Marine Forces Pacific. @USMC Deliberations reviewed key pillars of - defence cooperation, including strengthening #MaritimeSecurity and #MaritimeCooperation, enhancing #Interoperability, and expanding avenues for operational engagements across the Indo-Pacific,” wrote the official X handle of spokesperson of the Indian Navy.
The post further noted that the discussions also covered priority areas of mutual maritime interest, including deeper information sharing and maritime domain awareness, building on mechanisms like IPMDA and linkages with the Information Fusion Centre-Indian Ocean Region, safeguarding sea lines of communication and critical undersea infrastructure, coordinated responses for HADR and SAR missions, counter-piracy, and non-traditional security challenges, more complex and regular bilateral/multilateral exercises (including MALABAR, PASSEX, and CMF /MILAN frameworks) to refine joint warfighting, logistics, and sustainment, collaboration in emerging domains - unmanned systems, ISR, cyber, and space-enabled maritime operations - to bolster readiness and resilience at sea.
Admiral Tripathi will be in the US till November 17, and during the remaining time, he is scheduled to meet and convene discussions with senior officials of the US Department of War and meet top US naval leadership. He will further interact with key naval institutions and operational commands of the US Navy, with discussions expected to focus on shared maritime priorities in the Indo-Pacific, collaboration within multilateral frameworks such as MILAN, and initiatives of the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF).
The CNS's visit coincides with the multilateral naval exercise, Exercise Malabar 2025, a major Indo-Pacific maritime drill aimed at strengthening interoperability and coordination among the four partner nations — India, the US, Japan, and Australia — held in the West Pacific training area from November 10 to 18.
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