India, Russia counter-terrorism exercise INDRA 2012 in August

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India, Russia counter-terrorism exercise in August
Submitted by admin4 on 19 June 2012 - 8:09pm
India News
By IANS,

New Delhi : India and Russia are readying to hold their annual joint counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency army war game in August this year in Buryatia in southeast Russia.

The exercise, to be called Indra-2012, will witness about 250 troops from each side matching their skills and understanding each other's standard operating procedures in exercises to eliminate terrorists and insurgents, according to officers in the Indian Army headquarters.

The war game will take place at a training area in Buryatia, which falls under the Russian Army's Eastern Command.

The last Indra exercise was held in India's Uttarakhand state in October 2010, when about 250 troops from each side carried out manoeuvres in the garrison town of Chaubatia near hill resort Ranikhet.

Indian Army troops will get acquainted with Russian military equipment during exercise in the first stage, after which they will get to participate in joint tasks to get trained in standard operating procedures. Later, the two sides will carry out a synchronised counter-terrorism operations.

 

[SpArK]

Great neWs !

Indra-2012

 

[garibnawaz]

Sorry we don't have soldiers this time. Please go back to India.

 

[baker]

hope this contigent will contain our SF.......

 

[SpArK]

Joint Indo-Russian military exercises to be held in August
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The officials from the Indian Armed Forces today announced that they will be holding the fourth edition of the joint Indo-Russian army exercises in August 2012.


The exercise, which will have counter-terrorism operations as its main focus, will be conducted in the Asian part of Russia, near its border with China and Mongolia.


Army officials said that a total of 250 soldiers from both sides will attend the military drills, which has been codenamed as Indra 2012. The army also said that from this year onwards, the exercise will be an annual affair. The Armed forces of both India and Russia conducted their first joint military drill in 2005. The drills were conducted in the Indian state of Rajasthan, attended by elite troops from both the sides.

Russia hosted the second edition of the Indra drills, which were conducted in the European province of Pskov, located close to the Lithuanian and Latvian borders of the Eurasian nation. The third edition was conducted in the Chaubatia garrison, near the resort town of Ranikhet, in the Northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.

According to the Russian sources, the current edition of the drills will be conducted in the Republic of Buryatia, in the Siberian region of Russia. The region falls under the Russian Army’s Eastern Command. Unlike the other Russian provinces, Buryatia is home to an indigenous Asian minority, the Buriots.

Buriots and other Asians make up close to 30% of the Republic’s population, outnumbered only by the Russians.



The schedule for the drills was first announced in February this year by the Indian officials. Last year, Russia had called off the drills, which were about to be conducted there, due to some technical issues. A planned bilateral naval exercise between the two nations was also cancelled, as the Russia Navy was busy in conducting rescue operations in the tsunami hit areas of Japan.

India had conducted joint military exercises with Singapore and Indonesia, early this year. Indonesian troops joined their Indian counterparts for a training operation in the Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS) at Vairangte in Mizoram, on February 2012. The exercise lasted for more than three weeks


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