Military-Exercises(July 2025)

1. Exercise Bold Kurukshetra 2025 (India & Singapore)

• Type: Bilateral Army Exercise (14th Edition).
• Location: Jodhpur Military Station, Rajasthan.
• Date: Commenced on July 27, 2025 (running into early August).

• Key Focus: Conducted as a Table-Top Exercise (TTX) and computer-based wargame. It focused on validating operational procedures for mechanized warfare and armored combat under a United Nations mandate.

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• Participants: The Indian Army's Mechanised Infantry Regiment and the 42nd Singapore Armoured Regiment.

2. SIMBEX 2025 (Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise)

• Type: Bilateral Naval Exercise (32nd Edition).
• Location: South China Sea / RSS Singapura-Changi Naval Base.
• Date: July 28 – August 1, 2025.
• Key Focus: Advanced naval drills including gunnery firings, air defense exercises, and fleet coordination. It remains India's longest uninterrupted bilateral naval exercise with any foreign country.

3. Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025 (Multilateral)

• Type: Australia-led Multinational Exercise (11th Edition).
• Location: Various locations across Australia.
• Date: Late July 2025.
• Significance: India participated alongside 18 other nations (including the US, Japan, France, and the UK). With over 35,000 personnel, it was the largest edition of the exercise to date, focused on high-end multi-domain warfare and large-scale logistics.

4. Exercise Shakti-VIII (India & France) – Culmination

• Type: Bilateral Army Exercise.
• Location: Camp Larzac, Southern France.
• Date: Culminated on July 1, 2025 (having started in mid-June).

• Key Focus: Joint training for sub-conventional operations in semi-urban terrain under a UN mandate.