Indian-Bahrain PASSEX Under ‘Operation Sankalp’

• 20 Mar 2021

• The Indian Navy and the Royal Bahrain Naval Force carried out the Passage Exercise (PASSEX) in the Persian Gulf as part of ‘Operation Sankalp’ on 17^th March 2021.
• A passage exercise refers to a drill held by two navies to ensure that both are able to communicate and cooperate in times of war or humanitarian relief.
• The Indian Navy carries out such exercises at regular intervals with units of friendly foreign navies.
• They are undertaken at the time when the two navies are either visiting each other’s ports or during a rendezvous at sea.
• The exercise between the navies of the two nations has been conducted under the Maritime Security Operations, which has been code-named ‘Op Sankalp’.
• Operation Sankalp was first initiated in the Gulf region on June 19, 2019, in the aftermath of the attacks on merchant ships in the Gulf of Oman.