Indian, US air forces to begin bilateral exercise Thursday

October 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and the US Monday launched one of their largest-ever ground combat joint exercises codenamed 'Yudh Abhyas' (war study) at Babina in Uttar Pradesh. For the next two weeks, Mechanised Infantry Battalion of the Indian Army and Second Squadron of 14th Cavalry Regiment of 25 Stryker Brigade Combat Team, comprising of 325 men from the US, would be undertaking joint training exercises.

October 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Air Force's (IAF) deep penetration strike aircraft Jaguar will fly down to Oman this month for a military exercise. "To further military diplomacy and for addressing issues of inter-operabililty, IAF will be conducting a series of international exercises.

October 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In what is billed as the largest deployment of Stryker combat vehicles outside of those sent to Iraq and Afghanistan, the US Army plans to deploy 17 Strykers this month to India for a major training exercise. "It's one of the most important training exercises that we've done with the Indian military to date," Army Lt.

September 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Thursday said it will hold the third joint military exercise with China next year and clarified that no such drill was planned for this year. "It was mutually decided during the last exercise that the next joint military exercise would be held in 2010, external affairs ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash said.

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Army has mobilised its troops to forwards posts in Jammu and Kashmir and along the northeastern border with China in an exercise named Operation Alert, a defence official said Wednesday. About 50 percent troops on the Line of Actual Control have been mobilised to forward posts.

August 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A five-day joint exercise involving the Indian Air Force and the United States Air Force, Cope India-09, will be held at Agra from October 19, 2009. The participating IAF aircraft include IL-76, AN-32 and Mi-17 helicopters, while USAF will participate with C-17 Globemaster, C-130J (Super Herclues) and C-130H transport aircraft.

August 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Air Force on Friday said that India and the US will hold a joint military exercise, involving transport aircraft and helicopters, in October. "We are going to hold 'Exercise Cope-India' in October this year with the US Air Force in Agra and Chandigarh involving transport aircraft and choppers from both sides," IAF officials said.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna will begin his two-day official visit to Japan from today.

June 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian and French navies, which have been conducting the "Varuna" joint exercise for the past seven years, will engage outside Indian waters for the first time when the war game is conducted off the coast of Brittany June 27-July 4. For the last seven years, India and France have continually strengthened their bilateral naval relation as a part of which we have conducted an annual bilateral exercise, called Varuna.

June 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indo-French naval exercise aimed at enhancing interoperability between the two navies with an ever increasing complexity will take place for the first time outside Indian waters, off the coasts of Brittany from June 27 to July 4. Brittany occupies a large peninsula in the northwest of France, lying between the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south.

June 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An Indian Navy Task Group led by the destroyer-INS Delhi, along with frigates INS Beas and INS Brahmaputra, and the tanker INS Aditya will reach Portsmouth on June 17, for 'Exercise Konkan' with the Royal Navy. The task group will be under the command of Rear Admiral Surinder Pal Singh Cheema, Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Underlining its increasing strategic prowess, the Indian Navy has for the first time embarked on a two month-long deployment to the Atlantic Ocean, where it will participate in separate war games with the British and French navies. Since World War I, the Atlantic Ocean has been the stage for strategic warfare for navies the world over.

April 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The tri-nation naval exercise Malabar between Indian, US and Japanese navies will kick off Wednesday off the coast of Okinawa in Japan, a naval official said here Tuesday. Ships, aircraft and submarines from the US, Japan and India will take part in the 2009 edition of the exercise from April 28 to May 3.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The annual bilateral naval exercises between the Indian Navy and the Republic of Singapore Navy 'SIMBEX 2009' commenced in the Andaman Sea on Wednesday. SIMBEX, an acronym for 'Singapore India Maritime Bilateral Exercise', was formalised a decade-and-a-half ago, when RSN ships began training in Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) with the Indian Navy, in 1994.

February 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI/KOLKATA - India and Bangladesh continued their first joint military exercise in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district Thursday amid reports that the mutiny by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) troopers, which saw the killing of at least 50 people, spread beyond Dhaka. 'The Indian Army, Air Force and Bangladesh Army have been participating in the exercise to test their battlefield tactics since Feb 22.