A joint bilateral coaching train of Indian and Malaysian Armies has commenced in Meghalya’s Umroi Cantonment to boost navy functionality for conduct of multi-domain operations in a sub-conventional state of affairs.

The ‘Exercise Harimau Shakti 2023’, started on Monday and can proceed until November 5 with the Malaysian contingent comprising troops from the fifth Royal Battalion of the Malaysian Army and the Indian contingent represented by a Battalion of the Rajput Regiment, a defence launch mentioned on Tuesday.

The earlier version of the train was performed in Pulai, Kluang, Malaysia in November 2022.

The train will interact roughly 120 personnel from each side with each contingents establishing a joint command publish and an built-in surveillance grid together with a Joint Surveillance Centre.

Both sides will rehearse the employment of joint forces in jungle, semi-urban, city environments.

In addition, intelligence assortment, collation and dissemination drills may even be rehearsed.

The train may even witness the employment of drones/UAVs and helicopters.

Both sides may even observe casualty administration and evacuation drills, focus on logistics administration and observe survival coaching on the battalion stage.

The coaching will focus totally on a excessive diploma of bodily health, conduct of drills on the tactical stage and sharing of greatest practices with one another. The train will culminate with a 48-hour-long validation train in a semi-urban space.

This train is aimed to boost the extent of defence cooperation between Indian and Malaysian Armies together with fostering bilateral relations between the 2 nations, the discharge added.