Indian Navy’s Annual Theatre Readiness Operational Exercise (TROPEX) 2017 is being conducted off the Western Seaboard.
The month long exercise will see participation of ships and aircraft of both the Western and Eastern Naval Command.
It will also use assets from the Indian Air Force, Indian Army and the Indian Coast Guard.
TROPEX 17 exercise is aimed at testing combat readiness of the combined fleets of the Indian Navy.
It also tests assets of the Indian Army, Indian Air Force and Indian Coast Guard.
Aiming to strengthen inter-operability and joint operations in a complex environment, this is a critical war exercise.
Participating in it are major surface combatants and air assets of the Indian Navy including the aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, nuclear submarine Chakra, Landing Platform Dock (LPD) Jalashwa.
It will also see participation of recently commissioned destroyer Chennai, the P-8I long range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft.
The assets of Indian Navy will operate alongside SU-30 MKI, Jaguars, AWACS, IL-78 Flight Refuelling Aircraft of the Indian Air Force and Infantry units of the Indian Army.
The last edition of TROPEX exercise was conducted in January 2015 and since its launch it has grown in scale and complexity over the years.
Indian Navy: Know More- Active : Since 1830
- Country: India
- Size: 79,023 active personnel
- 295 ships & 251 aircraft
- Part of Indian Armed Forces,(Ministry of Defence, Government of India)
- Headquarters: New Delhi
- Motto: शं नो वरुणः (Sanskrit) (May the Lord of the Water be auspicious for us)
