Tuesday, 24 November 2015

SSB SPECIAL: LIST OF JOINT MILITARY EXERCISES OF INDIA





COUNTRY                                ARMY                                 NAVY                           AIRFORCE

  1. USA                           YUDHA ABHIYAAS             MALABAR                     RED FLAG
  2. UK                              AJEYA WARRIOR                 -----------                         --------------
  3. CHINA                      HANDS IN THE HANDS        -----------                         --------------
  4. FRANCE                      SHAKTI                                VARUNA                         GARUDA
  5. GERMANY**
  6. SINGAPORE        BOLD KURKSHETRA                SIMBEX                               JMT
  7. SRILANKA               MITRASHAKTI                       ------------                        -------------
  8. MALDIVES                EKUVERIN                            ------------                         -------------
  9. BANGLADESH            SAMPRITI                           ------------                         -------------
  10. MONGOLIA             NOMADIC ELEPHANT         ------------                         -------------
  11. RUSSIA                           INDRA                               -----------                           AVIA INDRA
  12. JAPAN                             ----------                              JIMEX                             -------------
  13. MALAYSIA**
  14. INDONESIA                 --------------                           KOMODO                       -------------
  15. BHUTAN                    SURYA KIRAN                     -------------                       -------------

** means exercises have been conducted without giving proper name or didnt got the name of exercise at that point of writing the article

OTHER IMPORTANT EXERCISES:-

  1. MILAN: The multination naval exercise hosted by the Indian Navy at Andaman and Nicobar islands with an aim to build mutual confidence between the navies of the Asia Pacific region successfully concluded with a passage exercise at sea on Monday.Naval ships of Singapore (two ships), Sri Lanka, Thailand, Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar, with representatives from navies of Brunei, Philippines, Vietnam and New Zealand participated in Exercise Milan.
  2. RIMPAC:- 

RIMPAC, the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, is the world's largest international maritime warfare exercise. RIMPAC is held biennially during June and July of even-numbered years from Honolulu, Hawaii. It is hosted and administered by the United States Navy'sPacific Fleet, headquartered at Pearl Harbor, in conjunction with the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, and Hawaii National Guardforces under the control of the Governor of Hawaii. The US invites military forces from the Pacific Rim and beyond to participate. With RIMPAC the United States Pacific Command seeks to enhance interoperability between Pacific Rim armed forces, ostensibly as a means of promoting stability in the region to the benefit of all participating nations  Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US). Australia, Canada, and the US have participated in every RIMPAC since then. Other regular participants are Chile,Colombia, France, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Peru, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and the UK. Royal New Zealand Navy was frequently involved until the 1985 ANZUS nuclear ships dispute, but has taken part in recent RIMPACs such as in 2012 and 2014.Several observer nations are usually invited, including China, Ecuador, India, Mexico, the Philippines, and Russia, who became an active participant for the first time in 2012
3. IBSAMAR:- IBSAMAR are a series of naval exercises between the navies of India, Brazil, South Africa. The name IBSAMAR is an abbreviation of India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime.
COAST GUARD EXERCISES:-
  1. DOSTI:- 

The Indian Coast Guard will be conducting joint exercise named “DOSTI-XII” with the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) and the Sri Lankan Coast Guard at Male, Maldives from 28-31 October 2014. The Joint Exercise – DOSTI between the Indian Coast Guard and MNDF was held for the first time in 1991. The aim of India-Maldives-Sri Lanka Tri-Lateral Exercise ‘DOSTI’ is to further fortify the friendship, enhance mutual operational capability, and exercise interoperability and to build cooperation between the Coast Guards of Maldives, India and Sri Lanka

  2. SAHYOG KAIJIN:- The joint exercises between the two Coast Guards OF INDIA AND JAPAN are being held annually since 1999. It focuses on anti-piracy procedures, pollution control measures and other areas of common professional interest.

 3.SAGAR KAVACH:- The exercise, Sagar Kavach Goa, is being held since 2009. Coastal security, a major subset of an all-encompassing subject of maritime security, has been centre stage, after the terror attack on Mumbai on November 26, 2008. India, being a maritime State, has numerous interests in maritime zones and safeguarding these interests A number of agencies, which include the Indian Navy, the Coast Guard, the State Marine Police, Customs, Fisheries, port authorities and other Central and State departments are the stakeholders in the maritime domain.


4. THEERA VETA:- Indian Coast Guard (ICG) from 28 April to 29 April 2015 held a security exercise, Theera Veeta, in the Arabian Sea. The exercise was intended to augment the preparedness of the security agencies in protecting the porous maritime borders of Kerala, Lakshadweep, Minicoy Islands and Mahe (part of Puducherry) from external attacks.

THERE ARE CERTAIN MORE EXERCISES WHICH WILL BE UPDATED SOON....









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