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The 10-day exercise brought Vice Adm. Dinesh Tripathi of the Indian Navy from India's western coast to Papua New Guinea, via the Solomon Islands and on to Sydney, a rare outing for the Indian admiral who had only visited the Pacific once in 2018. ABOARD THE HMAS KUTTABUL — Standing at the tip of the home of the Royal Australian Navy’s ancestral home, four admirals representing what could be called the Quad navy demonstrated the easy camaraderie that is building between the services leaders as they labor to create forces that can fight together throughout the Pacific Ocean. Vice Adm. Dinesh Tripathi, commander of the India’s Western Naval Command — colloquially known the “sword arm” of the Indian Navy — spoke of the bonds between Australia and India forged “in the many great epic bat...