Exercise MILAN

Subject – Defence and Security

Context – Navy gears up to hold its largest multilateral exercise ‘Milan’ at the end of February

Concept –

It is a biennial, multilateral naval exercise which started in 1995.
Formerly, held at Port Blair and now is shifted to Visakhapatnam
The Navy has held 10 editions of the Milan exercise, with the theme of “synergy across the seas” to enhance professional interactions between friendly foreign navies and learn best practices from each other, since 1995.
The area of cooperation of the exercise includes capacity building, marine domain awareness, training, hydrography, technical assistance, and operational exercises.