In this image via Indian Navy on March 7, 2025, Indian Navy ships during the 2025 edition of the Navy’s capstone Theatre Level Operational Exercise (TROPEX), which was conducted over a period of three months from January to early March, 2025.
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The Navy’s capstone theatre level operational exercise (TROPEX) that began from January has been completed and helped validate many of concepts of operations, the service announced on Friday. TROPEX witnessed the participation of about 70 naval ships and submarines and over 80 aircraft of different types.
The exercise included an amphibious exercise — AMPHEX, an endeavour with a phase focused on precise delivery of ordnance on target, cyber and electronic warfare, and a tactical phase. “The exercise provided a valuable evaluation of the Navy’s ability to respond to multifarious challenges in a synchronised and integrated manner to defend national maritime security interests,” the Navy said in a statement.
Set in the Indian Ocean, including the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, the theatre of operations for the exercise extended approximately 4,300 nm from North to South reaching to 35 degree South latitude and 5,000 nm from the Strait of Hormuz in the West to the Sunda and Lombok Straits in the East, the statement said.
The exercise achieved a very high level of operational synergy in planning and execution of theatre level scenarios with the other services. It witnessed extensive participation by units from the Army, the Air Force and the Coast Guard that included Sukhoi-30 and Jaguar fighter jets; C-130 transport aircraft, flight refueller and early warning aircraft, over 600 infantry troops, and more than 10 Coast Guard ships.
Published – March 08, 2025 01:27 am IST
