Malabar Exercise 2024 | 24 Oct 2024

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.