NEW DELHI: India has arranged a series of combat exercises before the end of the year to further enhance military interoperability with friendly nations, including Malabar naval battle quadrangle off Japaninfantry exercises with Australia and three ASEAN countries, and high-altitude exercises with the United States near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.
Warships, submarines, fighter jets, planes and helicopters will be deployed by India, the US, Japan and Australia off the coast of Yokosuka in Japan from 8 to 18 November for the climactic Malabar exercise. , with four ‘Quad’ countries having resolutely stated their intention to prevent any “coercion” in the Indo-Pacific to the attention of China’s aggressive expansionist policies. .
The Quad and AUKUS, the tripartite pact between the US, UK and Australia to help Canberra buy nuclear submarines, are key components of this policy.
While dispatching the multi-purpose stealth destroyer INS Shivalik, anti-submarine corvette INS Kamorta and P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft for the Malabar exercise, which will take place before the country’s international fleet review Japan and India are also preparing for the big exercise. land exercises with the United States.
Battalion level’Yudh Abhyas‘the exercise between the Indian and US armies will be held at Auli in Uttarakhand, less than 100 km from the LAC with China, from 15 November to 2 December.
An officer said: “With around 350 troops on each side, Yudh Abhyas will see the use of combined combat groups in the mountains and extreme cold, along with helicopter elements and surveillance nets. integrated monitoring”.
With India also steadily strengthening its military ties with Australia, its army will now also conduct its first ever infantry combat exercise ‘Austra-Hind’ at the Mahajan shooting range in Rajasthan from April 1. November 28 to December 11. “It will promote interoperability over semi-desert terrain,” he added.
India on Wednesday kicked off the SIMBEX naval exercise with Singapore in the Bay of Bengal.
Warships, submarines, fighter jets, planes and helicopters will be deployed by India, the US, Japan and Australia off the coast of Yokosuka in Japan from 8 to 18 November for the climactic Malabar exercise. , with four ‘Quad’ countries having resolutely stated their intention to prevent any “coercion” in the Indo-Pacific to the attention of China’s aggressive expansionist policies. .
The Quad and AUKUS, the tripartite pact between the US, UK and Australia to help Canberra buy nuclear submarines, are key components of this policy.
While dispatching the multi-purpose stealth destroyer INS Shivalik, anti-submarine corvette INS Kamorta and P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft for the Malabar exercise, which will take place before the country’s international fleet review Japan and India are also preparing for the big exercise. land exercises with the United States.
Battalion level’Yudh Abhyas‘the exercise between the Indian and US armies will be held at Auli in Uttarakhand, less than 100 km from the LAC with China, from 15 November to 2 December.
An officer said: “With around 350 troops on each side, Yudh Abhyas will see the use of combined combat groups in the mountains and extreme cold, along with helicopter elements and surveillance nets. integrated monitoring”.
With India also steadily strengthening its military ties with Australia, its army will now also conduct its first ever infantry combat exercise ‘Austra-Hind’ at the Mahajan shooting range in Rajasthan from April 1. November 28 to December 11. “It will promote interoperability over semi-desert terrain,” he added.
India on Wednesday kicked off the SIMBEX naval exercise with Singapore in the Bay of Bengal.
