USS Theodore Roosevelt to join Indian, Japanese warships for exercise in Bay of Bengal

USS Theodore Roosevelt will participate in Exercise Malabar in the Bay of Bengal starting from Oct. 14. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will be joined by warships from India and Japan.

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting sea trials Aug. 27, 2013, in the Atlantic Ocean 130827-N-ED185-006
By MC2 Brian G. Reynolds [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Japan will send a Akizuki-class destroyer to the exercise.

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