{"id":6527,"date":"2023-03-24T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T03:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:54:09","slug":"exercise-konkan-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-konkan-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Konkan 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Exercise Konkan 2023:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Konkan exercise is the <strong>annual bilateral maritime <\/strong>exercise between the <strong>Indian Navy and the UK\u2019s Royal Navy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I<strong>NS Trishul<\/strong>, a guided missile frigate, and <strong>HMS Lancaster<\/strong>, a\u00a0 Type 23 guided missile frigate, <strong>participated in this edition<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>undertook multiple maritime drills<\/strong> to <strong>enhance interoperability<\/strong> between the two forces and <strong>imbibe best practices<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The exercises <strong>covered all domains of maritime operations<\/strong>, air, surface, and sub-surface.<\/li>\n<li>It included <strong>gunnery shoots on the surface inflatable target<\/strong> \u2018Killer Tomato\u2019, helicopter operations, anti-air, and <strong>anti<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>submarine warfare drills<\/strong>, Visit Board Search and Seizure (VBSS), ship maneuvers, and exchange of personnel.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise will help the Indian Navy and Royal Navy work together to <strong>improve maritime security and maintain a rules-based order in the region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Where is the Konkan coast?<\/h3>\n<p>Konkan coast also known as Kokan is located in the western part of the country&#8217;s coastline and covers the coastal districts of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Goa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1909937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>ANNUAL BILATERAL MARITIME EXERCISE KONKAN 2023<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Konkan exercise is an annual bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and the UK\u2019s Royal Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6527","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\/6527","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=6527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}