<span style="color: #222222;">The Indian Navy had carried out a maiden exercise of slithering down from a helicopter with explosive-sniffing dogs. Two Explosive Sniffing Dogs, named Minki and Mukti, trained to sniff out explosives, were slithered down from a naval helicopter onto the offshore oil platform Neelam as part of a simulated bomb threat during the recently concluded Exercise Prasthan and Sea Vigil.<br />''<br />''The dogs then proceeded to do their job of sniffing out IEDs.<br />''<br />''The maiden slithering of explosive sniffing Dogs with their handlers and equipment laden technicians onboard offshore platforms has proved the Navy's reach and response in swift deployability to neutralise bomb or IED threats.</span><br />