Indian and Royal Navy Exercise
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NAVY JOINT EXERCISE VARUNA IN THE GULF OF ADENFOR
A two day exercise between
HMS Talent, a Royal Navy (Trafalgar class) submarine of and a Shishumar class submarine of the Indian Navy will be
conducted from 28th July to 30th July 2010 off the West
coast of India.
At the
same time, ‘KONKAN 2010’ the annual IN-RN bilateral exercise is being conducted
at Mumbai from 26th July 2010. This is the seventh edition of the
‘KONKAN’ series of exercises. This edition of KONKAN is being conducted as a
'Table-Top' exercise at the tactical simulator located at Maritime Warfare
Centre, Mumbai. A ‘Table-Top’ exercise is an
exercise without actual
participation of ships, but with participation of Planning Staff of both
countries. The aim of this exercise is to exchange operational
Planning concepts ; Maritime Domain Awareness
procedures and to test these plans through simulations of a maritime scenario
at sea. Experiences from this Table Top game will be utilised
to refine concepts for future KONKAN series of exercises involving ships,
submarines and aircraft.
The nine-member Royal Navy team is headed
by Commodore James Morse, the COMUKTG (Commander United Kingdom Task Group) and
the Indian Team of eleven officers is headed by Captain MA Hampiholi, Commanding Officer INS Talwar.
The first KONKAN exercise was
conducted in April 2004 at Chennai, followed by exercises in 2006, 2008 and
2009 in India. KONKAN 2007 was a Table-Top exercise conducted at the Royal
Navy’s Maritime Warfare Centre at Portsmouth, UK. In 2009, KONKAN was conducted
off the southern coast of UK during the deployment of IN Ships to the
Mediterranean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean. The IN-RN KONKAN series of
exercises are a
part of the continuing and growing constructive engagement process between the
two navies.
PVS/AKR
(Release ID :63546)