{"id":12867,"date":"2023-07-07T10:01:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T04:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12867"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T16:53:54","slug":"exercise-salvex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-salvex\/","title":{"rendered":"EXERCISE &#8211; SALVEX"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About EXERCISE \u2013 SALVEX:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Indian Navy \u2013 US Navy<\/strong> have been participating in joint Salvage and EOD exercises <strong>since 2005.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>Seventh edition of SALVEX.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The exercise saw participation from both the navies which included the ships \u2013 INS Nireekshak and USNS Salvor in addition to Specialist Diving and EOD teams.<\/li>\n<li>It also saw conduct of joint training exercises towards enhancing <strong>interoperability, cohesiveness <\/strong>and gaining from best practices mutually in Maritime Salvage and EOD operations.<\/li>\n<li>The constructive engagements on operational terms enhanced the skill-sets of the Diving teams in a number of diverse disciplines such as <strong>mine detection and neutralisation, wreck location and salvage.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What are the other exercises conducted between India and US?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Malabar Exercise:<\/strong> It is a quadrilateral naval exercise of India, USA, Japan and Australia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exercise Tiger Triumph:<\/strong> It is a humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief exercise.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yudh Abhyas:<\/strong> It is a joint military exercise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is INS Nireekshak?<\/h3>\n<p>INS Nireekshak is a diving support vessel operated by the Indian Navy. The ship is primarily used for diving operations, underwater maintenance, repair, and salvage operations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1937685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>IN-USN SALVAGE AND EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL EXERCISE &#8211; SALVEX<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Navy \u2013 US Navy have been participating in joint EXERCISE &#8211; SALVEX and EOD exercises since 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}