Indian Navy is participating in India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime (IBSAMAR 2010) exercises being conducted in the Indian Ocean region off Durban. IBSAMAR II has 11 ships taking part from the navies of India, Brazil and South Africa.
The second edition of IBSAMAR is scheduled from 13 – 27 Sep 2010. The exercises have been structured with the aim of sharing best practices in various facets of naval operations. The Indian ships participating are INS Mysore, INS Tabar, INS Ganga and INS Aditya. South Africa is fielding Amatola, Spioenkop, Drakensburg, Charlotte Maxeke, Queen Modjadji-I and Galeshewe and the lone Brazillian Naval Ship is Niteroi. Associated integral helicopters including Lynx & Seakings are also participating.
An Initial Planning Conference (IPC) for Exercise IBSAMAR II was held in Mumbai, India over the period 12-16 October 2009. The Final Planning Conference (FPC) was held at the Submarine Training School in Simon’s Town on 6 August 2010 which continued until the commencement of the exercise on 6 September 2010. South Africa is the host country, India is the lead country and Brazil is the support country.
IBSAMAR I took place between 5 to 16 May in 2008.
IBSAMAR is steered by the Joint Work Group for Defence, which is one of 16 Joint Working Groups of the three nations looking into various cooperation initiatives.
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