Subject: Defence Context: The Indian Navy (IN) is undertaking a Passage Exercise (PASSEX) with Russian Federation Navy (RuFN) in the Eastern Indian Ocean Region (IOR) from 4 to 5 December 2020. Concept: PASSEXs are conducted regularly by IN with units of friendly foreign navies, whilst visiting each other’s ports or during a rendezvous at sea. […]

Subject : Security Context: Navy is scheduled to hold a Passage Exercise (PASSEX) with a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier group.The PASSEX is likely to be held in the waters off Kochi. Concept: A passage exercise is normally undertaken whenever an opportunity arises, in contrast to pre-planned maritime drills. India has conducted passage exercises with French […]

Subject:IR Context: USS Nimitz, US Navy’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier exercised with the Indian Navy near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Concept: Usually, PASSEX drills happen whenever there is an opportunity. This means that such exercises happen spontaneously and there is nothing pre-planned. Very recently, the Indian Navy had similar drills with the Japanese Navy as […]