{"id":174800,"date":"2025-12-20T16:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=174800"},"modified":"2025-12-20T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:01:24","slug":"ins-sahyadri-joins-india-japan-maritime-exercise-jaimex-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/ins-sahyadri-joins-india-japan-maritime-exercise-jaimex-25\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Sahyadri Joins India-Japan Maritime Exercise JAIMEX 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marking another milestone in the expanding India-Japan defence partnership, the Indian Navy\u2019s INS Sahyadri has arrived at Yokosuka, Japan, to participate in the Japan-India Maritime Exercise (JAIMEX) 2025. The high-level bilateral naval drill, conducted from October 16\u201317, signifies deepening defence cooperation and strategic alignment between the two Indo-Pacific democracies. The exercise comes amid growing maritime challenges in the region and underlines a shared commitment to peace, stability, and a rules-based international order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ceremony and Deployment Highlights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>INS Sahyadri, a Shivalik-class stealth frigate, commanded by Captain Rajat Kumar, was formally received in Yokosuka by R Madhu Sudan, India\u2019s Charge d\u2019Affaires in Tokyo, and Rear Admiral Yamaguchi Nobohisa, Chief of Staff of Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), Yokosuka District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Japan Self Defence Fleet stated that the exercise involved,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>INS Sahyadri from the Indian Navy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Japanese assets including JS Asahi (destroyer), JS Oumi (supply ship), and a submarine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support from 2nd Artillery Brigade (JGSDF) and Western Aircraft Control and Warning Wing (JASDF)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The joint operations took place west of Kyushu, focusing on multi-domain coordination and tactical interoperability at the joint operational level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marking another milestone in the expanding India-Japan defence partnership, the Indian Navy\u2019s INS Sahyadri has arrived at Yokosuka, Japan, to participate in the Japan-India Maritime Exercise (JAIMEX) 2025. The high-level bilateral naval drill, conducted from October 16\u201317, signifies deepening defence cooperation and strategic alignment between the two Indo-Pacific democracies. The exercise comes amid growing maritime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":174801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5379],"tags":[69],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-174800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2025","tag-defence-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174800","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\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174802,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174800\/revisions\/174802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174800"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=174800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}