Joint Exercises between India and other Countries

1. India and USA

1.1. "Yudh Abhyas" Joint military army exercise between US and India

          As part of the ongoing Indo-US defence cooperation, a joint military training exercise, ‘Yudh Abhyas 2016’ is set to be conducted in Uttarakhand from September 14 to 27, a military official said on Monday. The exercise in Chaubattia was being conducted by the headquarter Central Command.








“It is a series of one of the longest running joint military training and a major ongoing bilateral defence cooperation endeavours between India and the US. It is the 12th edition of the joint military exercise hosted alternately by the two countries” the official said.

1.2  “Red Flag” aerial combat exercise US and India

      The Air Forces of India and the U.S. concluded their four-week “Red Flag” aerial combat exercises at Alaska in the U.S. on Saturday. The two forces simulated realistic aerial combat scenarios in a networked environment.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) flew 10 aircraft: four Su-30MKIs, four Jaguars and two IL-78 aerial refuelling tankers. A team of over 170 personnel was part of the exercises held from April 28 to May 13.

1.3 Malabar joint naval exercise with USA, India , Japan

In consonance with India’s ‘Act East Policy’ and growing relations among India, US and Japan, IN ships Satpura, Sahyadri, Shakti and Kirch are participating in the 20th edition of Ex MALABAR-16 with the USN and Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF). IN and USN have regularly conducted the annual bilateral exercise named ‘MALABAR’ since 1992. Since 2007, MALABAR has been held alternatively off India and in the Western Pacific. The 19th edition of the exercise, Ex MALABAR-15, was conducted off Chennai and included participation by the JMSDF.

The 20th edition of the exercise, Ex MALABAR-16, is being conducted from 14 to 17 June 16 with the harbour phase at Sasebo from 10 to 13 June 16 and the sea phase in the Pacific Ocean from 14 to 17 June 16. The primary aim of this exercise is to increase interoperability amongst the three navies and develop common understanding of procedures for Maritime Security Operations. The scope of MALABAR-16 includes professional interactions in harbour and a diverse range of activities at sea, including complex surface, sub-surface and air operations.

2.India and Japan

2.1 Sahyog-Kaijin

Ships and aircraft of the Indian Coast Guard and the Japan Coast Guard came together to train for the 15th edition of ‘Sahyog-Kaijin’ joint exercise in the Bay of Bengal off the Chennai coast .

This is the second time in three months a ship from the Japanese military forces is participating in a military exercise along with India. In October last year, Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force’s ship FS Fuyuzuk participated in exercise ‘Malabar’ with ships and aircraft of the Indian and the United States navies.

List of all Military exercise of India with Other Countries.

	INDIA	ARMY	NAVY	AIR FORCE
1.	USA	YUDH ABHYAS	MALABAR (JAPAN+INDIA+US)	RED FLAG
2.	JAPAN		1. Sahyog-Kaijin 2.MALABAR (JAPAN+INDIA+US)
3.	RUSSIA	INDRA
4.	CHINA	HAND IN HAND
5.	FRANCE	SHAKTI	VARUNA	GARUDA
6.	UK	AJEYA WORRIOR	KONKAN	INDRADANUSH OR RAINBOW
7.	BANGLADESH	SAMPRITI
8.	NEPAL	SURYA KIRAN
10	THAILAND	MAITREE
11	INDONESIA	GARUDA SHAKTI	CORPAT
12	SRILANKA	MITRA SHAKTI	SLINEX
13	UAE			DESERT EAGLE
14	AUSTRALIA		Ausindex
15	Singapore	Bold Kurukshetra	SIMBEX
16	Seychelles	LAMITYE
17	Mongolia	NomadicElephant
18	Kazakhstan	Prabal Dostyk
19	Oman	AL NAGA	Naseem Al Bahr	Eastern Bridge
20	Kyrgyzstan	Khanjar
21	Maldives	Ekuverin
22	South Africa, Brazil		IBSAMAR
23	ASEAN +	Force 18

KOMODO (Navy) – India, Indonesia, USA, China, Russia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines and Laos

Milan (Navy) – India, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Thailand.

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