Important Facts For Prelims
Exercise Dharma Guardian 2022
- 01 Mar 2022
- 2 min read
Why in News?
Recently, a Joint Military Exercise, “Exercise Dharma Guardian-2022”, between India and Japan will be conducted at foreign training node, Belagavi (Belgaum, Karnataka) from 27th February to 10th March 2022.
What is Exercise Dharma Guardian?
- Exercise Dharma Guardian-2022 is an annual training event which is being conducted in India since 2018.
- The scope of this exercise covers platoon level joint training on operations in jungle and semi urban/urban terrain.
- The joint exercise schedule includes house interventions drills, raid on terrorist hideouts in semi urban terrain, combat first aid, unarmed combat & close quarter combat firing where both sides will jointly train, plan and execute a series of well-developed tactical drills for neutralisation of likely threats.
- Special emphasis is being laid on enhancing tactical skills to fight global terrorism and on enhancing inter-operability between the forces and to promote Army to Army relations.
What are Other Military Exercises between India and Japan?
- Malabar: India and Japan with the United States and Australia participate in the naval wargaming exercise named Malabar.
- JIMEX (naval)
- SHINYUU Maitri (Air Force)
