Indian Navy’s multilateral exercise MILAN 2022 is scheduled to commence from 25th February in Visakhapatnam.
- The theme of the MILAN 2022 exercise is Camaraderie – Cohesion – Collaboration which aims to project India as a responsible maritime power to the world at large.
- MILAN 22 is being conducted over a duration of 9 days in two phases with the harbour phase scheduled from 25th to 28th February and Sea Phase from 1st to 4th March.
- India is celebrating the 75th year of its independence in 2022 and MILAN 22 provides an opportunity to commensurate this milestone with our friends and partners.
About MILAN exercise
- MILAN is a biennial multilateral naval exercise incepted by the Indian Navy in 1995 at Andaman and Nicobar Command.
- Since its inception, the event has been held biennially except for 2001, 2005, 2016, and 2020. While the 2001 and 2016 editions were not held due to International Fleet Reviews, the 2005 editions was rescheduled to 2006 due to the 2004 Tsunami. 2020 edition of MILAN was postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19.
- It was started with the participation of only four countries, Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, in the 1995 edition . Participation increased from six regional countries to 18 countries in 2014 which included IOR littorals.
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