The navies for India, the US & Japan kicked off trilateral ‘Malabar 2017’ maritime exercises in the Bay of Bengal on Monday. Malabar is a week-long show of maritime exercises, focusing on both on-shore activities in Chennai and also operational activities at sea, supposedly working to develop mutual confidence and strengthen security operations in the Indo-pacific region. READ MORE: br COURTESY: RT's RUPTLY video agency, NO RE-UPLOAD, NO REUSE - FOR LICENSING, PLEASE, CONTACT br RT LIVE br Subscribe to RT! br Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Google+ Listen to us on Soundcloud: br RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.