Overview
- The two-week tri-service campaign ended with a beach landing off Gujarat’s Saurashtra coast, with a press release stating the opening wave included an infantry platoon with a tank launched by a Landing Craft Mechanised under INS Jalashwa oversight.
- Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth, Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan and Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor boarded INS Vikrant to review carrier-borne flying and a joint multi-domain demonstration.
- Officials cited participation of about 30,000 Army personnel, multiple fighter aircraft and nearly 25 Navy ships and submarines, with the Coast Guard and BSF reinforcing inter-agency coordination.
- The Akhand Prahaar phase validated Konark Corps’ full-spectrum readiness and operationally validated the newly formed RUDRA all-arms brigade.
- Exercises across desert, creek and maritime sectors served as a testbed for indigenous drones, counter‑drone and electronic-warfare systems, while a separate high‑altitude joint drill in Arunachal is scheduled to conclude on November 15.