Article Title: Trilateral Maritime Partnership Exercise
23-09-2023
Defence & Internal Security Prelims Plus
Why is in news? Indian Navy's warship INS Sahyadri participated in the maiden trilateral Maritime Partnership Exercise
Indian Navy's indigenously built warship INS Sahyadri, mission deployed in Indo-Pacific, participated in the maiden India-Australia-Indonesia trilateral Maritime Partnership Exercise with the ships and aircraft from the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and Indonesian Navy from 20 - 21 Sep 2023.
The trilateral exercise provided an opportunity for the three maritime nations to strengthen their partnership and improve their collective capability to support a stable, peaceful and secure Indo-Pacific region.
The exercise also provided the opportunity for the participating navies to benefit from each other's experience and expertise.
Complex tactical and manoeuvring exercises, cross-deck visits and cross-deck landings of integral helicopters were conducted for training of crew and enhancement of interoperability.
INS Sahyadri, the third ship of the indigenously designed and built Project-17 class multirole stealth frigates was built at Mazagon Dock Ltd, Mumbai.
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