Pakistan Navy Naval Exercise AMAN-13

[truthseeker2010]

Exercise AMAN-13 is scheduled in North Arabian Sea from 4-8 March 2013. Navies of 50 countries have been invited to participate. This is the 4th exercise of AMAN series. AMAN is an Urdu word meaning "PEACE".

First Exercise of AMAN series was held in March 2007 which was a big success. During AMAN-07, 14 Ships of Bangladesh, China, France, Italy, Malaysia, UK and USA Navies participated. Besides, SOF/EOD teams from Bangladesh and Turkey also participated in SOF Exercises and 21 countries attended the Exercise as observer.



Second Exercise AMAN-09 was held in March 2009. During this Exercise 23 ships, 13 Aircrafts and 9 SOF teams of Australia, Bangladesh, China, France, Japan, Malaysia, UK and Nigeria, Turkey and USA participated. Observers from 27 countries also attended the exercise.



Third Exercise AMAN-11 was conducted from 8-12 March 2011. During this exercise, total of 39 countries have shown willingness in response to invitation by PN to take part in AMAN-11. Out of which 28 countries have participated with naval assets and observers. Total of 11 ships from Australia, China, France, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and USA participated. Three aircraft from Australia & Japan and 03 SOF/EOD/Marines teams from China, Turkey and USA also participated during the exercise AMAN-11. Forty three observers of 26 countries participated in AMAN-11.

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[UmarJustice]

Aman exercise commences today

The multinational exercise Aman- 13 will be conducted from March 4 to 8, in which navy forces of 34 countries including Pakistan Navy (PN) are participating.

This was stated by Commander Pakistan Fleet, Rear Admiral Khan Hasham Bin Siddique, at a media briefing here on Sunday.

He pointed out that the Aman series of multinational exercises were started in 2007 with a view to promote regional cooperation and stability, greater interoperability and to display a united resolve against terrorism and crimes in maritime domain including Piracy. The Aman-13 is the fourth such exercise planned from March 4 to 8 at Karachi.

Admiral Hasham pointed out that the concept of exercise was designed to: Provide common forum for information sharing, mutual understanding and identifying areas of common interest. The countries participating with the Naval assets are – Australia, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia (Special Operation Force only) Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, UAE, UK and USA.

The countries participating with observers are – Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Sudan, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Tanzania, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukra ine, UAE and USA.

He said that the exercise was planned with focused objectives, which are: Display of united resolve against terrorism and crimes in maritime domain.

Contributing towards regional peace and stability. Enhancing interoperability between regional and extra regional navies thereby acting as a bridge between the regions.

Admiral Hasham said that Pakistan Navy, along with other maritime forces of the country is proactively engaged in maintaining and further improving maritime security and stability in the region as well as checking illegal activities on our coast. Being fully conscious of the emerging maritime situation of the area especially since the start of this century, Navy has all along remained engaged with coalition maritime forces.

PN is the first Navy of the region to join Coalition Maritime Campaign Plan (CMCP), named as Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150), in 2004 formed to check illegal activities in Indian Ocean and provide safe and secure environment to sea-lanes of communication. So far PN has contributed 45 ships since 2004 and have undertaken multitude of Maritime Security operations. These efforts despite resource constraints have been duly acknowledged and PN has been entrusted with the command of the Task Force 150 for five times since 2004. Besides this, navy is also part of Combined Task Force-151 formed in Jan 2009 exclusively to combat the threat of piracy in Gulf of Aden.

So far, 14 PN ships have participated in this coalition and PN have also commanded this task force twice in last two years and are in command for the third time since December 12. Besides joining the international coalition, PN has also taken other initiatives for collaborative maritime security. In this direction, PN initiated Aman series of exercise in 2007, which has become a biennial event. This PN considers not only an acknowledgment of PN’s efforts but also manifests the slogan of exercise, which calls for being `Together for Peace’.

When asked why India was not included in the participants of the exercise, he said, “Until and unless level of trust is not maintained countries like, India, may not be seemed among in such exercise. Courtiers like, India could not be among participants without resolving the issues of ports and others.” Admiral Hasham further stated that the Aman exercises hold a lot of importance as they define and help improve the level of operational readiness, task-accomplishment, refine command, control and communication procedures and tactics.

The international perspective of Aman helps the PN meet international standards and integrate into the global system of maritime security. The exercise Aman has grown in stature and Aman-13 has set a new benchmark with 33 navies participation including 18 ships. In addition, around 40 plus observers from 24 countries are also participating in Aman-13.

Pakistan being a responsible maritime nation with prominent strategic location is cognizant of its responsibility to ensure maritime security in the region which is of great importance to theentire globe.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[EagleEyes]

Brain child of Pakistan Navy continues to see success.

 

[ejaz007]

Sri Lanka Navy’s Fast Missile Vessel “Suranimala” is sailing for Karachchi in Pakistan to take part in the Multi-national Naval Exercise, “AMAN-13”, which is scheduled to be held from 04th to 08th March 2013.

Chinese navy to join Pakistan exercise

The 14th Chinese naval squad heading for Somali waters will take part in a multi-national exercise in Pakistan in March, military sources said Sunday.
The “Exercise Aman-13″ is scheduled to start in the North Arabian Sea March 4. Aman is an Urdu word meaning “peace”.The fleet, sent by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, departed Saturday from a port in Qingdao of east China’s Shandong province to the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters for escort missions.

The 14th convoy fleet comprises three ships — the missile destroyer Harbin, the frigate Mianyang and the supply ship Weishanhu — carrying two helicopters and a 730-strong troop, all from the North China Sea Fleet under the PLA Navy.Since December 2008, authorized by the UN, the Chinese navy has organised 14 fleets to the waters of the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters to escort 5,046 Chinese and foreign ships.More than 50 Chinese and foreign ships have been rescued or assisted during the missions. – KahleejNews

 

[Last Hope]

Please use this thread:

http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakistan-navy/205519-fourth-aman-exercise-held-march.html

 

[Neptune]

Best of luck for you guys . By the way I see that we're mentioned as both participant and observer? What's are status on this? Thanks.

 

[Gentelman]

Best of luck for you guys . By the way I see that we're mentioned as both participant and observer? What's are status on this? Thanks.

you are not attending exercise but just sent some people to observe...
I suppose your Special Operational Force is attending..
well SOF from Turkey attended Aman in the past...

 

[Mian H Amin.]

why arent we developing our navy ????

 

[Kompromat]

why arent we developing our navy ????

Because we don't have money

 

[Mian H Amin.]

lol, general sir, i mean we are giving all funds to army and airforce why not navy ?

 

[fatman17]

lol, general sir, i mean we are giving all funds to army and airforce why not navy ?

share of budget;
army 44%
airforce 34%
navy 22%

this anomoly needs to change.

 

[Mian H Amin.]

is that the actual share ???? i mean where did you get it from ? i read that military budget never get public in Pakistan..

 

[fatman17]

is that the actual share ???? i mean where did you get it from ? i read that military budget never get public in Pakistan..

i've just quoted %'s

 

[Neptune]

you are not attending exercise but just sent some people to observe...
I suppose your Special Operational Force is attending..
well SOF from Turkey attended Aman in the past...

Ohh bro I think we can't miss the party, sounds like we're in just as always we. I just read in the news. It says that as country, this year Turkey will join as an observer itself. BUT it also says that the vessels of Germany, Italy, The Netherlands,
Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom
and United States will join as part of SNMG-2. As a result, Turkish ship TCG Gokova (FFG-496) is goin to join up to the party. So we're together again bro!

 

[BDforever]

Bangladesh is also participating in Aman 13
BNS ABU BAKAR (frigate) is participating