After Asean drill, India & Thailand team up for patrol

After the first Asean-India naval exercise in the contentious South China Sea, which riled China to no end, India has now conducted a bilateral maritime coordinated patrol (Corpat) with Thailand in the Andaman Sea. It saw the two navies deploying warships and maritime patrol aircraft along the international maritime boundary line in the Andaman Sea from May 3 to 10.