Kota Kinabalu: The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) launched a bilateral exercise with its Australian counterpart at the Sepanggar naval base, near here, Wednesday.
The Malaysia-Australia Exercise or Mastex, which started Tuesday, is carried out biennially to strengthen military relations between Malaysia and Australia.
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The nine-day exercise involves a total of 500 sailors from both navies, two RMN ships namely KD Kelantan and KD Lekiu, and two Royal Australian Navy (RAN) vessels, HMAS Stuart and HMAS Sirius.
The opening ceremony was officiated by the RMN Eastern Fleet Command's Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, Captain Azhar Baharum. Also present was the Assistant Defence Advisor to the High Commissioner of Australia to Malaysia, Captain Doug Griffiths.
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