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The Indian Navy’s indigenously designed and built guided-missile destroyer, INS Kochi, exercised with Russian Federation Navy’s RFS Admiral Tributs in the Arabian Sea. 

About Passex Exercise

• The Indian Navy conducts PASSEX exercises regularly with units of friendly foreign navies.
• The exercise showcased cohesiveness and interoperability between the two navies and included tactical maneuvers, cross-deck helicopter operations and seamanship activities.
• The Exercise reflects the strong long-term strategic relationship between the countries and particularly in defence cooperation in the maritime domain.
• India has conducted PASSEX Exercises with the US, Russia, the UK, Indonesia and others.