Konkan Shakti Exercise

• The United Kingdom (UK) and India are set to launch their biggest joint military exercise called “Konkan Shakti”.

• In the exercise, there will be re-entry of UK’s Carrier Strike Group (CSG) into western Indian Ocean waters.

• The CSG, along with HMS Queen Elizabeth, has been on deployment in the Indo-Pacific waters for all summer.

• Military of the UK engaged with their counterparts in Singapore and Bangladesh. They also did a “non-provocative deployment” in South China Sea.