Context: TROPEX 21 is currently underway in Indian Ocean Region(IOR). It is the Indian Navy’s largest biennial Theatre Level Operational Readiness Exercise.
About Exercise TROPEX

• It is an inter-service military exercise. It involves the participation of the Indian Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard.

Aim

• To test the combat readiness of the Navy in a multi-dimensional scenario of the current geostrategic environment.
• To validate the Navy’s capabilities like offensive-defense capabilities, safeguarding the maritime domain, and promote stability and peace in the Indian Ocean Region.

Conducted by: The exercise is being overseen by Naval Headquarters. Other participants include Eastern, Western and Southern Naval Command of the Indian Navy and Andaman and Nicobar Command (the only Tri-Service theatre command of the Indian Armed Forces located at Port Blair).

• Location: The exercise is being conducted in the Indian Ocean Region(IOR) and its adjunct waters.
• Theme of the exercise: ‘Combat Ready, Credible and Cohesive force.
• Phases under the exercise: Exercise TROPEX is being progressed over distinct phases that will also test the Navy’s transition from peacetime to hostilities.
• In the first phase, the Indian Navy had conducted coastal defense Exercise ‘Sea Vigil’.
• It was followed by a large-scale Tri-Service joint amphibious , Exercise AMPHEX-21.