Exercise in News
Kartavya Desk Staff
Source: PIB
Context: The Indian Coast Guard and Indian Navy are conducting two major maritime exercises — NATPOLREX-X (2025) off Chennai and Exercise Konkan-25 off the western coast — to strengthen India’s preparedness.
About Exercise in News:
NATPOLREX-X 2025
• Host & Organiser: Conducted by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) from October 5–6, 2025, off the coast of Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• Participants: Central ministries, coastal state governments, major ports, oil-handling agencies, maritime organisations, and over 40 foreign observers from 32 countries.
• Aim: To assess and enhance India’s national capability to respond to marine oil spills and test inter-agency coordination under the National Oil Spill Disaster Contingency Plan (NOSDCP).
• Features: Deployment of ships and aircraft equipped with pollution-control technology. Demonstration of India’s multi-tiered pollution response strategy. Focus on sustainable maritime practices and environmental protection.
• Deployment of ships and aircraft equipped with pollution-control technology.
• Demonstration of India’s multi-tiered pollution response strategy.
• Focus on sustainable maritime practices and environmental protection.
Exercise KONKAN-25:
• Host & Nations Involved: A bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy (United Kingdom), conducted from October 5–12, 2025, off India’s western coast.
• Aim: To improve interoperability, maritime domain awareness, and joint operational readiness between the two navies.
• Features: Two phases — harbour and sea phase — including professional exchanges, joint working groups, and complex maritime drills. Focus areas: anti-air, anti-surface, and anti-submarine warfare, flying operations, and seamanship evolutions. Assets: Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikrant and UK’s HMS Prince of Wales (UK Carrier Strike Group 25), along with assets from Norway and Japan.
• Two phases — harbour and sea phase — including professional exchanges, joint working groups, and complex maritime drills.
• Focus areas: anti-air, anti-surface, and anti-submarine warfare, flying operations, and seamanship evolutions.
• Assets: Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikrant and UK’s HMS Prince of Wales (UK Carrier Strike Group 25), along with assets from Norway and Japan.