Australia is conducting 7 nation Indian Ocean military exercise along with Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore.
Australia deploy 4 Naval Ships and one military aircraft along with 1000 security personnel making it one the biggest military exercise.
The exercise is aimed to counter the growing Chinese influence in the India Ocean.
The Australian forces started the exercise from Sri Lanka and reached India then moved to other participating nations and will return after two and half months.