{"id":30469,"date":"2025-03-01T01:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30469"},"modified":"2025-04-10T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:37:16","slug":"exercise-desert-hunt-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-desert-hunt-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Desert Hunt 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Exercise Desert Hunt 2025 Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Exercise Desert Hunt 2025 was conducted at Air Force Station Jodhpur from 24 to 28 February 2025.<\/p>\n<h2>About Exercise Desert Hunt 2025<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It isan <strong>integrated Tri-Service Special Forces exercise<\/strong> conducted by the Indian Air Force.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise <strong>involved elite Para (<\/strong>Special Forces) from the Indian Army, the <strong>Marine Commandos <\/strong>from the Indian Navy along with the <strong>Garud (Special Forces)<\/strong> from the Indian Air Force, participating together in a simulated combat environment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim:<\/strong> This high-intensity drill was aimed <strong>at enhancing interoperability<\/strong>, coordination and synergy among the three Special Forces units to ensure swift and effective response towards emerging security challenges.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise included airborne insertion, <strong>precision strikes, hostage rescue, counter-terrorism<\/strong> operations, combat free falls and urban warfare scenarios wherein the combat readiness of the forces was tested under realistic conditions<\/li>\n<li>Senior military officials supervised the exercise to validate joint doctrines.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong> It provided a platform to foster the commitment of the Indian Armed Forces to strengthen national security through seamless inter-service cooperation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Exercise Desert Hunt 2025 FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong> What is the role of the Garud Commando special force?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The Garud commandos are the special forces of the Indian Air Force (IAF). Their tasks include counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, providing security to IAF&#8217;s assets, and various air force-specific special operations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong> What does a marine commando do?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> They specialize in offshore operations; operations from sea to land and special operations on land<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=2107177&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise Desert Hunt 2025 is an integrated Tri-Service Special Forces exercise conducted by the Indian Air Force<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30469","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\/30469","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=30469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}