Joint Maritime Exercise
Context:
Indian Navy conducts/participates in bilateral/multilateral maritime exercises and coordinated patrols (CORPATS) with friendly foreign countries on a regular basis.
The aim and objective of these exercises include providing operational exposure to our Naval forces, enhance interoperability and undertake mutual exchange of best practices, special operations tactics and to develop cooperation among the armed forces of participating nations etc. In this process the current tactical and technological practices/techniques etc., are exchanged during such exercises.
The details of Joint Maritime Exercises conducted with foreign countries during the last three years i.e., from the year 2018-19 to 2020-21 are as under:-
| Sl. No. | Country | Exercise | Year (s) |
| 1. | ADMM Plus Countries | ADMM Plus Exercise | 2019-20 |
| 2. | Australia | AUSINDEX KAKADU Black Carillon (Multi-lateral) | 2019-20 2018-19 2019-20 |
| 3. | Bangladesh | IN-BN CORPAT (Annual) IN-BN BILAT (Annual) IN-BN SF Exercise (Annual) | 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 2019-20, 2020-21 2019-20 |
| 4. | Brazil & South Africa | IBSAMAR | 2018-19 |
| 5. | France | VARUNA | 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 |
| 6. | Indonesia | IND-INDO CORPAT (Bi-annual) (Coordinated Patrol) IND-INDO BILAT | 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 2018-19, 2019-20 |
| 7. | IONS | IONS Working Group Exercise (Multilateral) | 2019-20 |
| 8. | Japan | JIMEX EOD J2A (Multilateral) | 2018-19, 2020-21 2019-20 |
| 9. | Malaysia | IN-RMN BILAT | 2019-20 |
| 10. | Maldives | Ex EKATHA | 2018-19, 2019-20 |
| 11. | Myanmar | IMCOR IN-MN BILAT | 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 |
| 12. | Oman | Naseem-al-Bahr | 2019-20 |
| 13. | Qatar | Za’ir Al Bahr | 2019-20 |
| 14. | Russia | INDRA NAVY | 2018-19, 2020-21 |
| 15. | Singapore | SIMBEX | 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 |
| 16. | Singapore & Thailand | India, Singapore, Thailand Trilateral Exercise (SITMEX) | 2019-20, 2020-21 |
| 17. | Sri Lanka | SLINEX IN-SLN SF Exercise | 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 2019-20 |
| 18. | Thailand | INDO-THAI CORPAT | 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 |
| 19. | UAE | IN-UAEN BILAT | 2018-19 |
| 20. | UK | KONKAN | 2018-19, 2019-20 |
| 21 | USA | SPITTING COBRA (IN-USN EOD Exercise) SANGAM(IN-USN SF Exercise) IMX CUTLASS Express (Multilateral) RIMPAC (Multilateral) | 2019-20 2019-20 2019-20 2019-20 2018-19 |
| 22. | USA & Japan | MALABAR | 2018-19, 2019-20 |
| 23. | USA, Japan & Australia | MALABAR | 2020-21 |
| 24. | Vietnam | IN-VPN BILAT | 2018-19, 2019-20 |
| 25. | Friendly Foreign Countries | MILAN (Multilateral) | 2018-19 |
| 26. | Western Pacific Naval Symposium | WPNS Exercise (Multilateral) | 2018-19 |
