Overview

• Both navies deployed full carrier strike groups led by INS Vikrant and HMS Prince of Wales in the first joint carrier-on-carrier exercise between the two countries.
• The eight-day exercise runs from October 5 to 12 off India’s west coast in distinct harbour and sea phases.
• The sea phase focuses on anti-air, anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare along with flying operations, cross-deck activities and other seamanship evolutions.
• Japan’s JS Akebono and Norway’s HNoMS Roald Amundsen are participating as the UK Carrier Strike Group continues its Operation Highmast deployment.
• Following Konkan-25, UK ships will make port calls in Mumbai and Goa before a one-day aerial defence drill with the Indian Air Force on October 14.