List of Military Exercises of Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian Air Force with other countries

List of Bilateral Military Exercises of Indian Army, Indian Airforce and Indian Navy
Multilateral Exercises of Indian Army, Indian Airforce and Indian Navy
Domestic Exercises of Indian Armed Forces

Indian Armed forces participate in many Military exercises across the world. The main purpose of these Military exercises is to enhance cooperation in the field of Defense and to test the performance of the Armed forces.
The military exercises of India are primarily of three types:
- Bilateral: When only two countries participate in a Military exercise, it is called a bilateral military exercise.
- Multilateral: When multiple nations participate in a Military exercise, it is known as a multilateral military exercise.
- Domestic: The military exercise conducted inter-services or intra-services of the armed forces is called Domestic military exercises.
The military exercises can also be classified on the basis of a branch of the Armed forces such as Army exercise, Naval Exercise, and Air force exercise.
Tri-service Military exercise: The military exercise in which all branches of armed force participate.

List of Bilateral Military Exercises of Indian Army, Indian Airforce and Indian Navy

Military Exercise	Participants	Type of Exercise	First Edition
Vajra Prahar	India- United States	Army	2010 (India)
Yudh Abhyas		Army	2004 (Mizoram)
RED FLAG		Air Force	1975 (Nevada) India joined for the first time in 2008 in Nevada.
Tiger Triumph		Triservice	2019 (Visakhapatnam and Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh)
Austra Hind	India -Australia	Army	2015 (India)
AUSINDEX	India -Australia	Navy	2015 (India)
Sampriti	India – Bangladesh	Army	2009 (Assam, India)
IN-BN CORPAT		Navy	2018 (Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh)
Bongosagar		Navy	2019
Hand In Hand	India -China	Army	2007 (China)
Chang Thang	India -China	Army	Rare exercise Latest held in 2019 in Ladakh
Shakti	India -France	Army	2011 (Chaubatia, Uttarakhand)
VARUNA		Navy	1983
Garuda		Air Force	2003 (Gwalior, MP)
Garuda Shakti	India -Indonesia	Army	2012 (India)
IND-INDO CORPAT		Navy	2002
IND-INDO BILAT		Navy	2015
Samudra Shakti		Navy	2018 (Indonesia)
SHINYUU Maitri	India -Japan	Air force	2019 (West Bengal, India)
Dharma Guardian		Joint military exercise	2018 (Mizoram, India)
Sahyog-Kaijin		Coast Guards
JIMEX		Navy (biennial)	2012 (Japan)
Prabal Dostyk (renamed as KazInd in 2018)	India -Kazakhstan	Army	2016 (Kazakhstan)
Khanjar	India -Kyrgyzstan	Army	2011 (Nahan, India)
Ekuverin	India -Maldives	Army	2009 (Pune, India)
Harimau Shakti	India -Malaysia	Army	2012 (Malaysia)
Nomadic Elephant	India -Mongolia	Army	2004 (Mongolia)
Imbex	India -Myanmar	Army	2017 (Meghalaya)
IMCOR	India -Myanmar	Navy	2013
Surya Kiran	India -Nepal	Army	2011 (Vairengte, India)
AL NAGAH	India -Oman	Army	2015 (Oman)
Naseem-al-Bahr		Navy	1993
EASTERN BRIDGE		Air Force (biennial)	2009 (Oman)
Za’ir-Al-Bahr (Roar of the sea)	India -Qatar	Navy	2019 (Doha, Qatar)
INDRA	India -Russia	Tri-services (biennial)	Began as single service exercise in 2003. First joint tri-services exercise was held in 2017 in Russia.
LAMITYE	India -Seychelles	Army (biennial)	2001
SIMBEX	India -Singapore	Navy	1994
Agni Warrior		Army	2004 (India)
Bold Kurushetra		Army	2007
MITRA SHAKTI	India -Sri Lanka	Army	2014 (Sri Lanka)
SLINEX	India -Sri Lanka	Navy	2005
MAITREE	India -Thailand	Army	2006
AJEYA WARRIOR	India -United Kingdom	Army	2005
KONKAN		Navy	2004
Indradhanush		Air Force	2006 (India)
DESERT EAGLE	India -UAE	Air Force	2008 (UAE)
Dustlik	India-Uzbekistan	Army	2019 (Uzbekistan)
VINBAX	India -Vietnam	Army	2018 (Jabalpur, MP, India)

Multilateral Exercises of Indian Army, Indian Airforce and Indian Navy

Military Exercise	Participants	Type of Exercise	First Edition
IBSAMAR	India, Brazil & South Africa	Navy	2008- South Africa
Blue Flag	India, Israel, USA, Poland, Greece, Italy, UK	Air Force	2013 (Israel) India participated for the first time in 2017
MALABAR 2020	India, United States, Australia and Japan	Navy	1992- Bilateral exercise- USA and India- held in India’s west coast 2015-Japan joined permanently- held in Bay of Bengal 2020- Australia joined- held in Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea
Milex	Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)- India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand	Field training military exercise	2018-Pune
PASSEX 2020	India- Russia, USA, Australia, Vietnam	Navy
SITMEX	India, Thailand and Singapore	Navy	2019 (Port Blair, India)
TSENTR 2019	Russia, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan	Army	Exercise Tsentr is part of the Russian armed forces’ annual training cycle. It became international with Belarus joining in 2017 and China and Mongolia in 2018.
Pitch Black	Canada, France (New Caledonia), Germany, Indonesia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and the United States	Air Force	1981- Australia Indian Air Force participated for the first time in 2018.
IONS Maritime Exercise (IMEX)	25 member countries and other observer states of IONS	Navy	Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS), established in 2007, is a premier forum for cooperation and collaboration among navies of littoral states of the Indian Ocean Region. Member nations of IONS conducted the first edition of IONS Maritime Exercise 2022 in Goa and Arabian Sea.

Domestic Exercises of Indian Armed Forces

Military Exercise	Participants
Suraksha Kavach	Joint Anti-Terrorist Exercise between Army and Police
Bull Strike	Army, Navy and Air Force of Andaman and Nicobar Command.
HimVijay	Army's mountain combat exercise
Changthang Prahar	Indian Army
Drad Sankalp	Indian Army
Shatrujeet	Indian Army
Megh Prahar	Indian Army
Chakravyuh	Indian Army
Gandiv Vijay	South Western Command of Indian Army
Vayu Shakti	Air force
Gagan Shakti	Air force
Sudarshan Prahar	Indian Army