Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya backed by nuclear submarine INS Chakra besides fighting assets of the Indian Navy and Coast Guard have come together in the country’s biggest inter-service Tropex exercise along the western seaboard.
The navy’s annual Theatre Readiness Operational Exercise (TROPEX) got underway on January 24.
File Photo from TROPEX-2015
The month-long exercise will have ships and aircraft of both the Western and Eastern Naval Commands, as also assets from the Indian Air Force, Indian Army and the Indian Coast Guard exercising together.
The last edition of the exercise was conducted in January 2015.
Tropex has grown in scale and complexity over the years and will see participation of major surface combatants and air assets of the Indian Navy including INS Vikramaditya, INS Chakra, Landing Platform Dock (LPD) Jalashwa, the recently commissioned destroyer INS Chennai, P-8I long range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft operating alongside SU-30 MKI, Jaguars, AWACS, IL-78 Flight Refueling Aircraft of the Indian Air Force and infantry units of the Indian Army.
The exercise will be conducted in various phases, both in harbor and at sea encompassing the various facets of war-fighting and combat operations.
Tropex-17 assumes special significance in the backdrop of the current security scenario, a statement by the navy said.
The exercise is aimed at testing combat readiness of the combined fleets of the Indian Navy, and the assets of the Indian Air Force, Indian Army and the Indian Coast Guard. It will also strengthen interoperability and joint operations in a complex environment.
Credit: PTI
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