SIMBEX-2023

September 22, 2023

Navies of India and Singapore have begun a week-long bilateral maritime exercise, SIMBEX, in the southern parts of the South China Sea for which the two countries have deployed a submarine each.
Indian Navy’s Rajput-class destroyer INS Ranvijay, Kamorta-class corvette INS Kavaratti, submarine INS Sindhukesari, and a P-8I maritime patrol aircraft are taking part in the three-decade-old annual exercise.
- It was first held in 1994.
SIMBEX is conducted in two phases.
- The land phase of the exercise will involve table-top exercises and planning discussions while,
- the sea phase will see the navies engage in various naval drills, including anti-submarine warfare and live weapon firing.