JAIMEX 2025

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Recently, Indian Naval Ship (INS) Sahyadri participated in the Sea phase of JAIMEX-25 (Japan India Maritime Exercise).

About JAIMEX 2025

• It is a maritime exercise between India and Japan.
• Objective: It underscores the strong and burgeoning Navy-to-Navy interactions that underpin the ‘Special Strategic and Global Partnership’ established between India and Japan in 2014. This partnership is a crucial pillar for ensuring peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific maritime domain.
• It involved two phases

• • Sea phase included advanced Anti-Submarine Warfare and missile defence drills, enhancing interoperability by undertaking flying operations and underway replenishment.
  • Harbour Phase at Yokosuka includes engagement in a multitude of professional and cultural exchanges, cross-deck visits, collaborative operational planning, sharing of best practices,
• Significance: The Indian Navy and JMSDF have been at the forefront of this growing partnership with a shared vision of a free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific region.
• Other bilateral exercises between India and Japan: Malabar exercise (Naval Exercise), ‘Veer Guardian’ (Air Force), and Dharma Guardian (Army). 

Key Facts about INS Sahyadri

• It is an indigenously built Shivalik-class Guided Missile Stealth Frigate.
• It is indigenously designed, constructed and commissioned in 2012.
• The ship is capable of carrying Barak-1 and Shtil-1 3S90M missiles, BrahMos anti-ship missiles, anti-submarine rocket launchers.
• The multi-role stealth frigate has participated in various operational deployments, bilateral and multilateral exercises.

Source: PIB

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