Pakistan Navy to commence drills from next month

[air marshal]

Pakistan Navy to commence drills from next month

Pakistan Navy, in a bid to ensure the security situation in the region, announced to conduct War Game Exercise Shamsheer-i-Behr IV in the next month keeping in view India’s new concept of war, report said Tuesday.

According to Pak Navy, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani would inaugurate these war games on July 12. It should be mentioned here that these drills have been worked out keeping in sight the Indian concept of war.

The exercises would include mastering various war strategies like the possibilities regarding circumstances of confrontation and jumping to retaliatory action.

The War Game is designed to revalidate Navy’s operational concepts and evaluate new ones in the backdrop of emerging trends in regional and geo-strategic environment.

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[M8R]

Great - It's quite rare to hear any news about navy re: training etc.Where as Army and Air Force is often in news.

 

[bd_4_ever]

Pakistan Navy to commence drills from next month

Pakistan Navy, in a bid to ensure the security situation in the region, announced to conduct War Game Exercise Shamsheer-i-Behr IV in the next month keeping in view India’s new concept of war, report said Tuesday.

According to Pak Navy, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani would inaugurate these war games on July 12. It should be mentioned here that these drills have been worked out keeping in sight the Indian concept of war.

The exercises would include mastering various war strategies like the possibilities regarding circumstances of confrontation and jumping to retaliatory action.

The War Game is designed to revalidate Navy’s operational concepts and evaluate new ones in the backdrop of emerging trends in regional and geo-strategic environment.

Pak Navy to commence drills from next month | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online

Sir, according to the post this is going to be an exercise within the PN itself....dont you think conducting such war games would culminate more fruitful results if done with a friendly nation....that would lead to more exposure.....

Just my 2 cent.....

Cheers and salam from Bangladesh.....!!!

 

[M8R]

No; these exercises are done to test various scenarios.For example Pakistan Air Force Conducts exercise in which they test interception time etc and some air force jets act as hostile and are considered bogeys and friendlies then intercept them.These exercises are very important to test if everything is working ok.Just after Mumbai attacks Pakistani Air Force did such exercise and Pakistan Air Space was closed for a day or so.

 

[bd_4_ever]

No; these exercises are done to test various scenarios.For example Pakistan Air Force Conducts exercise in which they test interception time etc and some air force jets act as hostile and are considered bogeys and friendlies then intercept them.These exercises are very important to test if everything is working ok.Just after Mumbai attacks Pakistani Air Force did such exercise and Pakistan Air Space was closed for a day or so.

Yes i get the point....such exercises are even conducted by our defence forces too....what i meant was its fine to exercise such war games between your forces but off course, if you can have more exposure (that only exercising with friendly nations can give you) your PN will be more capable to deal with unstructured crisis.....whereas doing it with within your forces may limit that advantage....

We have had 4 exercises this year with the US navy, 1 is still going on....this does not mean our navy conducts no war games/exercises of its own....i hope i am clear....

Dangers dont come by ringing bells and its not the same all the time mate....

Cheers!!!

 

[M8R]

PN had excercise with British, US and Australian Navies few months ago near Karachi!It was named something called AMAN-09 i think.

 

[M8R]

United States, China, France, Britain, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Japan participated in AMAN-09.

OBJECTIVES

1.Refine C3 procedures and tactics.

2.Improve inter-operability and tactical proficiency.

3.Conduct defense of port infrastructure including anchorage against an asymmetric threat.
4.Promote ASuW / Air operations and its related interoperability between the participating units.
5.Develop common tactics against asymmetric air, surface, and mine threats
6.Integration of MPAs and Fighters into various type of exercises.

7.Demonstration of MCM capabilities through conduct of MCM operations in a potentially hostile air and surface environment.

Media personnel performed a sea drill at the conclusion of the Aman-2009 multinational naval exercise, thereby becoming part of the exercises. They were taken onboard two Pakistan Navy (PN) main warships, PNS Tippu Sultan and PNS Tariq, to witness the first day of the operational sea of the Aman exercise that remained in progress from March 9 to March 12.Out of the 38 countries from different regions, navies of 11 countries actively participated in the Aman 2009 maritime exercise, bringing their ships, aircraft, naval officers, and sailors.

Eight warships of Pakistan Navy and 11 other ships from navies of the USA, the UK, Bangladesh, China, Australia, France and Malaysia were present on the first day of the operational sea phase of Aman exercise.In the evening, these ships also took part in a surface firing competition in the open sea. The main surface guns of ships fired at a glowing target in the open sea dropped at a distance of seven to eight Nautical Miles.


As the two PN warships, of type-21 class and Britain made, had to remain in the open seas during four days of operational phase of the Aman, news personnel were shifted from PNS Tippu Sultan and PNS Tariq to two missile boats of PN for their return journey to the naval dockyard at the Karachi port. This shifting – in maritime and naval warfare terms – is called Personnel Replenishment at sea between ships.The personnel replenishment exercise in the open sea took place through small “Zulu” boats. A wooden ship ladder and two ropes hanging seaward vertically from the ship were used to help descending journalists; an activity demanding mental alertness and physical balance to enable them to safely get down onto the small rubber-inflated boats.


It took at least 90 minutes for the crews of PNS Tippu Sultan and PNS Tariq and those riding the Zulu boats including the PN divers to ensure the safe transfer of journalists from the ships to the missile boats.Officials and sailors at the warships and missile boats said that the phenomenally calm and smooth sea conditions during personnel replenishment were instrumental in the safe vessel-to-vessel transfer of media personnel, which included a female journalist.PN spokesman Commander Salman Ali said that by involving the media in the personnel replenishment exercise between ships, they were given a chance to have a glimpse of the outstanding mental and physical alertness, fitness, and determined ruggedness required of the seafarers associated with the country’s naval force.


The dropping of PN commandos on deck of moving ships through Sea King helicopters was also highly appreciated by news personnel.Lieutenant Zia, who led the squad of Special Service Group of the navy which landed on PNS Tippu Sultan, said that the aerial dropping technique of commandos, which is otherwise called Visit Boat Search and Seize operation against enemy ships, had attained salience once again in the backdrop of international maritime efforts against pirates operating off the coast of Somalia.The visiting newsmen also witnessed joint flypast by helicopters, maritime surveillance aircraft and fighter jets from Pakistan Navies and naval forces of other participating countries. The participation of P-3C Orion of the Japanese navy and Mirage-5 fighter jets of No. 8 Squadron of PN were the distinguishing features of the flypast.


Alouette helicopters of PN performed deck landing on warships. Helicopters of other participating naval forces performed cross deck landing on each other’s ships.Talking to media personnel, Commanding Officer of PNS Tippu Sultan Captain Zubair Shafique said that warships from different navies of the world had been participating in the sea exercise to understand operational procedures utilised by other naval forces against common maritime threats.He added that the joint exercise would help in increasing interoperability of various naval forces against common maritime menaces of terrorism, piracy, drug, and human smuggling.

 

[M8R]

 

[M8R]

Intro
Exercise AMAN 11 is scheduled to be conducted in North Arabian Sea from 8-17 March 2011. Navies of 46 countries have been invited to participate. This is the third exercise of AMAN series. AMAN is an Urdu word meaning "PEACE".

Slogan of AMAN exercise is:

Together For 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

 

[bd_4_ever]

Thats exactly what i am talking about....

Bangladesh Navy and Pakistan Navy should conduct more exercises together IMO....


Cheers!!!

 

[mjnaushad]

First the Airforce, Then the Army, Then Airforce+Army and now the Navy.....

I'M lovin it.

 

[gowthamraj]

^ what usa and china in same exercise

 

[bd_4_ever]

Pakistan Navy war game Shamsheer-e-Behr IV


The opening session of Pakistan Navy war game Shamsheer-e-Behr IV held here on Monday. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani was the chief guest of the event. A Navy press release said that speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister underlined the significance of war games in military planning process and said in todays’ fast changing world, regular conduct of war games to evolve new concepts and doctrines is extremely important.

He lauded the realistic stock taking, exhaustive analysis and objective decision making of the Force Commanders who earlier presented their detailed plans.

Earlier, on his arrival at the venue, the Prime Minister was received by Chief of the Naval Staff along with the key naval commanders.

Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Operations, Vice Admiral Abbas Raza, then presented an overview of the war game outlining objectives set forth and concepts to be tried.

He particularly stressed on the significance of naval base at Gwadar for ensuring an impregnable defence of motherland and relevance of Pakistan Navy under new and emerging challenges.

He added that being a tri-service event with representation of relevant ministries, Shamsheer-e-Behr IV is the Flag ship war game of Pakistan Navy that is held biennially to try various concepts which are then validated in subsequent Navy-wide field exercise before being developed into naval strategy.

The event was attended by a large number of high ranking Armed Forces officers besides civil bureaucrats and representatives of ministries.

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the regular holding of war games had become all the more important to evolve new concepts and doctrines in military planning.

The prime minister said this while speaking as the chief guest at the opening session of Pakistan Navy’s war games Shamsheer-e-Behr-IV here at the auditorium of PNS Jauhar (PN Engineering College) on Monday. The prime minister in his speech underlined the need the significance of war games in military planning process.

Gilani, on the occasion, lauded the realistic stock taking, exhaustive analysis, and objective decision making of the Force Commanders of the war games who earlier presented their detailed plans.

Earlier, on his arrival at the venue, the Prime Minister was received by Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Noman Bashir, along with the key naval commanders.

Vice-Admiral Abbas Raza, Deputy-Chief of Naval Staff Operations, afterwards presented an overview of the war games outlining the objectives set forth and concepts to be tried.

The senior naval official particularly stressed the significance of the naval base at Gwadar for ensuring impregnable defence and the relevance of Pakistan Navy under new and emerging challenges.

He added that being a tri-service event with representation of relevant ministries, Shamsheer-e-Behr-IV was the Flag ship war game of Pakistan Navy that is held biennially to try various concepts which are then validated in subsequent navy-wide field exercises before being developed into naval strategy.

The event was attended by large number of high-raking Armed Forces officers including Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Tariq Majeed, besides civil bureaucrats and representatives of ministries.

Pakistan Navy war game Shamsheer-e-Behr IV THE PEOPLE OF PAKISTAN