Yudh Abhyas: India-US maintain joint counter-terrorism drill in Rajasthan’s Bikaner

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India, United States on Saturday carried out a joint tactical navy stage train in Rajasthan’s Thar desert, aimed toward enhancing cooperation and interoperability. The sixteenth version of joint navy train ‘Yudh Abhyas’ is being carried out on the overseas coaching node on the Mahajan Field Firing Range in Rajasthan’s Bikaner. The drill is known as Zorawar, in honour of mid Nineteenth-century Dogra navy commander General Zorawar Singh, who’s famend because the “Conqueror of Ladakh”.

The focus of the drill is counter-terror operations and aside from that, each militaries are finishing up familiarisation and dealing with of weapons, battlefield trauma administration, casualty evacuation, tactical stage questioning, intelligence assortment monitoring and interrogation strategies and counter-IED drills.

During the train, firing from small arms, medium-range arms and tanks have been carried out.

About the counter-terror joint drills, US Army Major Sameer Puri mentioned: “We should maintain the high level of professionalism. We should expand more such drills so that we can integrate more staff functions.”

He mentioned that there ought to be officer to officer stage of co-ordination and non-commissioned officer to non-commissioned officer integration in order that they they’ll study frequent language of navy processes.

Major Puri mentioned that terrorism is greatest risk for the world and it ought to be countered strongly. “We have learnt a lot during the exercise,” he mentioned.

Similarly, Captain Alica Brown mentioned that the drill was an incredible expertise for her.

“We were welcomed with open arms. The hospitality was more than even dreamed about. It is great experience to have shared understanding with Indian Army,” she mentioned.

A complete 240 US Army personnel are a part of the train and so they had arrived on February 5.

“Full Covid-19 protocol were maintained during the exercise,” mentioned a senior Indian Army officer.

(With inputs from IANS)
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