• ●Samudra Laksamana is the bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and the Royal Malaysian Navy; the fourth edition began with INS Mysore's arrival at Lumut on 9 September 2026.
• ●INS Mysore (D60) is a Delhi-class guided-missile destroyer, commissioned on 2 June 1999.
• ●Lumut, in Perak state, is Malaysia's largest naval base and has been the Royal Malaysian Navy's headquarters since 1984.
• ●The visit follows the 12th India-Malaysia Sub Committee Meeting held on 1 July 2026.
• ●MAHASAGAR stands for Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security and Growth Across Regions, announced at Port Louis, Mauritius, in March 2025 as a widening of the earlier SAGAR vision.
• ●The deployment also falls under the ASEAN-India Year of Maritime Cooperation 2026.
• ●Harimau Shakti is the separate India-Malaysia joint army exercise, held alternately in the two countries.
• ●The Strait of Malacca, between Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, is the chokepoint linking the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea that gives these exercises their strategic setting.

INS Mysore, deployed for the fourth edition of Samudra Laksamana, belongs to which class of warship?