Exercise KONKAN-25 Latest News
Recently, Exercise KONKAN-25 commenced on 05 Oct 2025, off the western coast of India.
About Exercise KONKAN-25
- It is a bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and Royal Navy of UK.
- The exercise will be conducted in two phases.
- The harbour phase of the Exercise will include professional interactions between naval personnel, cross deck visits, sports fixtures, and cultural engagements.
- The sea phase will encompass complex maritime operational drills focusing on anti-air, anti-surface, and anti-submarine exercises, flying operations and other seamanship evolutions.
- Both participating nations will deploy frontline assets, including aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, submarines, and integral and shore based air assets.
- The Indian side will be represented by the carrier battle group of the indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant in company with other surface, sub-surface and air combatants.
- This exercise is a reaffirmation of the shared commitment to ensuring secure, open and free seas and will exemplify the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership outlined in ‘India-UK Vision 2035’.
- Significance: Exercise Konkan 2025 will serve as a platform to consolidate strategic ties, enhance interoperability and contribute to regional maritime stability.
Source: PIB
Last updated on November, 2025
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