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Malabar Exercise 2024
- 24 Oct 2024
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Recently, the sea Phase of Malabar 2024 concluded at Visakhapatnam.
- Major events of 2024 Malabar Exercise:
- Participants and Major Exercises: Warships, helicopters, patrol aircraft, and a submarine engaged in surface, sub-surface, and air warfare exercises.
- About Malabar Exercise:
- Initiated in 1992 as a bilateral naval exercise between India and the US, this multilateral war-gaming exercise expanded in 2007 to include Japan and Australia.
- Quad and Malabar Exercise are closely linked through their shared objective of enhancing security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.
- Quad: Known as the 'Quadrilateral Security Dialogue' (QSD), the Quad is an informal strategic forum comprising four nations, namely -US, India, Australia and Japan.
- The group met for the first time in 2007 on the sidelines of ASEAN.
- Quad Leaders launched the Regional Maritime Initiative for Training in the Indo-Pacific (MAITRI) to maximise tools provided through Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA).
- Other Military Exercises:
- La Perouse: India, Australia, United States, France, Japan, and United Kingdom.
- SALVEX: India and USA
- Sea Dragon: India, USA, Japan, Canada and South Korea
- Ex Veer Guardian: Air Exercise between India and Japan
- Exercise Kakadu: A biennial exercise (hosted by Australian Navy) between Malabar countries.
- Initiated in 1992 as a bilateral naval exercise between India and the US, this multilateral war-gaming exercise expanded in 2007 to include Japan and Australia.
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