Article Title: RIMPAC – 2022
04-08-2022
Defence & Internal Security Prelims Plus
INS Satpura entered Pearl Harbour in Hawaii, USA on 02 Aug 22 on completion of the sea phase of RIMPAC-22, a multilateral exercise conducted over 22 days off Hawaii, USA.
The ship participated in Anti-Submarine, Anti-Ship and Anti-Air Warfare exercises with multi-national navies in the Pacific Ocean during the sea phase apart from undertaking cross-deck landings of Indian Naval helicopter on foreign warships and replenishment at sea.
The first RIMPAC, held in 1971. RIMPAC, the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, is the world's largest international maritime warfare exercise. RIMPAC is held biennially. It is hosted and administered by the United States Navy's Indo-Pacific Command, headquartered at Pearl Harbor.
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