Overview
- Top Army, Navy and IAF commanders boarded INS Vikrant to review a live joint operation that included carrier-borne flying and underway replenishment on Wednesday night.
- The exercise closed with beach-landing drills near Madhavpur on the Saurashtra coast led by Southern Command amphibious forces, and media reports noted an LCM sea-to-land launch of an infantry platoon with a tank.
- In the desert sector, Akhand Prahaar validated Konark Corps’ full-spectrum readiness and operationally validated the newly formed RUDRA integrated all-arms brigade.
- Commanders said Trishul tested new weapons, procedures and indigenous systems such as drones, counter‑drone tools and electronic warfare grids in realistic conditions.
- A separate high-altitude Army–IAF multi-domain exercise in Arunachal is under way through November 15, using advanced surveillance and synchronised joint fires with rockets, artillery and swarm and loitering drones.