{"id":16923,"date":"2025-03-20T01:11:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T19:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16923"},"modified":"2025-04-05T00:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:27:54","slug":"exercise-corpat-and-bongosagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-corpat-and-bongosagar\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Bongosagar 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Exercise Bongosagar Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The India-Bangladesh naval exercise &#8216;Bongosagar 2025&#8217; and a &#8216;Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT)&#8217; took place in the Bay of Bengal recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About Exercise Bongosagar<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>bilateral naval exercise<\/strong> between <strong>India and Bangladesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is designed to develop high-level interoperability and operational expertise through a broad spectrum of maritime operations.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Commenced in the year 2019<\/strong>, Bongosagar 2025 is the <strong>fifth edition <\/strong>of the exercise.\n<ul>\n<li>The exercise saw <strong>participation of INS Ranvir <\/strong>from the Indian Navy and <strong>BNS Abu Ubaidah from Bangladesh Navy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The exercise enhanced interoperability between the two navies, facilitating collaborative responses to shared maritime security challenges.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise involved a range of complex operations encompassing surface firing, tactical manoeuvres, underway replenishment, Visit-Board-Search-Seizure (VBSS) cross boarding, communication drills, quiz for Ops team and junior officers on professional topics, and steam past.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise provided the opportunity for both navies to develop closer links in tactical planning, coordination, and information sharing for undertaking seamless maritime operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about INS Ranvir<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>Rajput-Class guided missile destroyer <\/strong>which has undergone upgrade with state-of-art weapons and sensors, majority being indigenous.<\/li>\n<li>It is the fourth of the five Rajput-class destroyers built for the Indian Navy, which was commissioned on 28 October 1986.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Exercise Bongosagar FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is Exercise Bongosagar?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. A bilateral naval exercise between India and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. In which year did Exercise Bongosagar first commence?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which Indian Navy ship participated in Exercise Bongosagar 2025?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. INS Ranvir, a Rajput-Class guided missile destroyer, participated in Exercise Bongosagar 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/external-affairs-defence-security\/news\/india-bangladesh-conduct-naval-exercise-and-patrol-despite-strained-ties-125031400475_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise Bongosagar 2025 is a bilateral naval drill between India and Bangladesh to enhance maritime cooperation and interoperability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16923","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\/16923","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=16923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}