{"id":131622,"date":"2023-03-25T12:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T06:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=131622"},"modified":"2023-03-25T12:27:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T06:57:37","slug":"india-uk-hold-joint-maritime-exercise-konkan-in-arabian-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-uk-hold-joint-maritime-exercise-konkan-in-arabian-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"India, UK hold joint maritime exercise &#8216;Konkan&#8217; in Arabian Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>India, UK hold joint maritime exercise &#8216;Konkan&#8217; in Arabian Sea : <\/strong>The annual bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and UK&#8217;s Royal Navy was held off the Konkan coast in the Arabian Sea from March 20-22, an official statement said on Thursday. INS Trishul, a guided missile frigate, and HMS Lancaster, a Type 23 guided missile frigate, participated in &#8216;Konkan 2023&#8217; and undertook multiple maritime drills to enhance interoperability and imbibe best practices, the Indian Navy said in the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-march-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><br><br>It is a joint drill by the two navies to demonstrate operational readiness, enhancing interoperability and improving the ability to conduct joint operations. INS Trishul, a guided missile frigate, and HMS Lancaster participated. It covered all domains of maritime operations, air, surface, and subsurface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exercises covered all domains of maritime operations, air, surface and sub-surface, and included gunnery shoots on surface inflatable target &#8216;Killer Tomato&#8217;, helicopter operations, anti-air and anti-submarine warfare drills, Visit Board Search and Seizure (VBSS), ship manoeuvres and exchange of personnel, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India, UK hold joint maritime exercise &#8216;Konkan&#8217; in Arabian Sea : The annual bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and UK&#8217;s Royal Navy was held off the Konkan coast in the Arabian Sea from March 20-22, an official statement said on Thursday. INS Trishul, a guided missile frigate, and HMS Lancaster, a Type 23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":131623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5004],"tags":[69],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-131622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2023","tag-defence-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131624,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131622\/revisions\/131624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131622"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=131622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}