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Exercise INDRA-21
Part of: GS Prelims and GS II – International relations
In news The 12th Edition of Indo-Russia joint military Exercise INDRA will be held at Volgograd, Russia in August 2021.
About Exercise INDRA
- The exercise will entail conduct of counter terror operations under the United Nations mandate by a joint force against international terror groups.
- The INDRA series of exercises began in 2003 and was conducted as a bilateral naval exercise alternately between the two countries. However, the first joint Tri-Services Exercise was conducted in 2017.
- The last joint, tri-services exercise between India and Russia was conducted in India in December 2019. It was held simultaneously at Babina (near Jhansi), Pune, and Goa.
Major Indian Maritime Exercises
Name of the Exercise | Name of the Country |
SLINEX | Sri Lanka |
Bongosagar and IN-BN CORPAT | Bangladesh |
JIMEX | Japan |
Naseem-Al-Bahr | Oman |
Indra | Russia |
Za’ir-Al-Bahr | Qatar |
Samudra Shakti | Indonesia |
Indo-Thai CORPAT | Thailand |
IMCOR | Malaysia |
SIMBEX | Singapore |
AUSINDEX | Australia |
Malabar Exercise | Japan, and the USA |
News Source: PIB