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Indian Navy to hold 2-day pan-India coastal defence exercise ‘Sea Vigil-21’ today

Dubbed India's largest coastal defence exercise, it will involve all the 13 coastal states and Union Territories along with other maritime stakeholders.



The Indian Navy will hold a pan-India coastal defence exercise starting Tuesday. The two-day mega defence exercise will kick start on Tuesday and cover the country's 7,516 km coastline and exclusive economic zone, as per officials.

"The second edition of the biennial pan-India coastal defence exercise ‘Sea Vigil-21’ will be conducted on January 12-13," the Navy said.

Dubbed India's largest coastal defence exercise, it will involve all the 13 coastal states and Union Territories along with other maritime stakeholders, they said.

The scale and conceptual expanse of the exercise are "unprecedented" in terms of the geographical extent and the number of stakeholders involved, units participating and objectives to be met.

"The exercise is a build-up towards the major theatre level exercise TROPEX which Indian Navy conducts every two years," it said.

"Sea Vigil and TROPEX together will cover the entire spectrum of maritime security challenges, including the transition from peace to conflict," the Navy said in a statement.

Indigenously developed landing gear systems for UAVs handed over to Navy

On Sunday, retractable landing gear systems for unmanned aerial vehicles, indigenously built by the Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment here, a unit of the DRDO, were handed over to the Navy.

The CVRDE, which was involved in design and development of armoured vehicles and combat systems, said it designed and built the three-tonne Retractable Landing Gear Systems for TAPAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and a one-tonne landing gear system to the SWiFT UAV under the Centre's 'Atma Nirbhar Bharat' programme.

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