Third India-Australia Joint Military Exercise AUSTRAHIND Begins in Maharashtra Pune

The 3rd version of India and Australia’s joint army workout started at the Foreign Training Node in Pune on November 8.

The workout is arranged to be performed from November 8 to November 21.

The workout AUSTRAHIND was begun in 2022 in Rajasthan and has ever since come to be a yearly occasion which is performed additionally in India and Australia.

The goal of the workout is to promote a joint collaboration in between both countries and share finest methods in between both sides The last version of the exact same workout was performed in Perth, Australia in December 2023.

For the 2024 workout, the Indian contingent consisting of 140 employees will certainly be stood for primarily by a squadron of the DOGRA Regiment and 14 employees from the Indian Air Force.

The Australian Army contingent consisting of 120 employees will certainly be stood for by the 13th Light Horse Regiment of the 10th Brigade of second Division.

AUSTRAHIND

The goal of Exercise AUSTRAHIND is to advertise army collaboration in between India and Australia via the improvement of interoperability in the conduct of joint sub-conventional procedures in a semi-urban atmosphere in semi-desert surface under Chapter VII of the UN required. The workout will certainly concentrate on a high level of fitness, joint preparation and joint tactical drills.

The workout will certainly be performed in 2 stages specifically, fight conditioning and tactical training stage and recognition stage.

Drills to be practiced throughout the workout will certainly consist of feedback to a terrorist activity of recording a specified area, facility of a Joint Operations Centre, the conduct of joint counter-terrorism procedures like Raid and Search and Destroy Missions, protecting of an airport, work of drones and counter-drone steps and Special Heli-Borne Operations, among others.

Exercise AUSTRAHIND will certainly allow both sides to share their finest methods in techniques, methods and treatments for performing tactical procedures. The workout will certainly additionally promote establishing bonhomie and friendship in between bear up both sides.

The information of the opening event were shared by the Additional Directorate General of Public Information of the Indian Army on X.

It was kept in mind, “The objective of the exercise is to strengthen interoperability between the #IndianArmy and the #AustralianArmy in conducting Sub-Conventional Operations under the #UN Mandate”.

India and Australia have considerable collaboration in the protection market. This consists of a 2 +2 Defence and Foreign Minister’s Dialogue, Defence plan and Defence solution team talks.

Other workouts in between both nations consist of AUSINDEX which is a reciprocal maritime workout and PITCHBLACK, a multi-national workout by Australia where the Indian Air Force has actually regularly gotten involved.

AUSTRAHIND workout 2024 comes with the heels of the just recently wrapped up journey of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to Australia from November 3 to November 7. The see saw the EAM foster much deeper connections with Australia throughout diverse fronts.

Positive collaboration in numerous facets has actually supercharged the India-Australia relationships.