India's Joint Defence Exercise - List

Indian Navy Joint Exercises

• Varuna naval exercise is joint exercise of navies of France and India. They are held either in Indian Ocean or Mediterranean Sea.
• SLINEX.-Sri Lanka India Naval Exercise
• INDRA is a joint, bi-annual military exercise conducted by India and Russia started from 2003.
• Exercise Malabar is a trilateral naval exercise involving the United States, Japan, and India as permanent partners. Originally only a bilateral exercise between India and the U.S., Japan became a permanent partner of the exercise in 2015. Past non-permanent participants are Australia and Singapore. The annual Malabar series began in 1992, and includes diverse activities, ranging from fighter combat operations from aircraft carriers, through Maritime Interdiction Operations Exercises
• Simbex is an annual bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the Republic of Singapore Navy.
• IBSAMAR is a series of naval exercises between the navies of India, Brazil, and South Africa.
• KONKAN - A bilateral Naval Exercise between Indian Navy and Royal Navy of Britain
• AUSINDEX-Indian and Australian Navy Bilateral Maritime Exercise
• Naseem Al Bahr - Biennial exercise between Indian Navy and Royal Omani Navy

 

Indian Air Force Joint Exercises

• The joint India-UK air exercises are known as the “Indradhanush” or “Rainbow”.
• India-France Air Exercise “Garuda".
• Avia Indra-2014- the India-Russia maiden aerial exercise.

 

Indian Army Joint Exercises

• Mitra Shakti exercise- India and Sri Lanka.
• Exercise Shakti - India and France armies
• Exercise Nomadic Elephant- Indian Army exercises with the Mongolian Army.
• Exercise Yuddh Abhyas is a series of joint exercises between the Indian and United States Armies since 2005.
• Surya Kiran - India Nepal joint military exercise
• Hand-in-Hand. -India-China joint military training exercise
• India launched Operation Vijayee Bhava ("Be Victorious"), a defence exercise involving 50,000 troops in Bikaner and Suratgarh near the border with Pakistan in order to boost the synergy between the various branches of the armed forces