India, Japan, Indonesia conduct trilateral naval exercise in Andaman Sea

The Indian Navy, on with Japan and Indonesia, conducted a trilateral workout successful the Andaman Sea connected Friday (February 13, 2026).

The workout aimed to heighten associated operational readiness, amended interoperability, and fortify maritime practice for a harmless and unchangeable region.

In a station connected X, Spokesperson of the Indian Navy shared, "Ships from the navies of India, Japan and Indonesia undertook a trilateral workout successful the Andaman Sea connected 13 Feb 26, enhancing combined operational readiness, interoperability and reinforcing maritime practice towards a safe, unafraid and unchangeable region.”

Earlier, connected Thursday (February 12, 2026), the Indian Navy assumed bid of Combined Task Force (CTF) 154, a cardinal multinational grooming task unit nether the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF).

According to a property release, the alteration of bid ceremonial was conducted connected February 11. 2026, astatine CMF Headquarters successful Manama, Bahrain, and was presided implicit by VAdm Curt A. Renshaw, Commander, CMF / U.S. NAVCEN/ U.S. Fifth Fleet VAdm Tarun Sobti, Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff (DCNS), Indian Navy, and elder subject leaders from different subordinate nations were successful attendance.

Cmde Milind M. Mokashi, Shaurya Chakra, of the Indian Navy, formally took implicit arsenic Commander CTF 154 from the outgoing Commander of the Italian Navy.

According to the release, CTF 154 is specifically oriented toward grooming and capableness gathering for subordinate nations of the CMF. It reflects the region's increasing spot successful India's nonrecreational expertise, operational experience, and relation arsenic a Preferred Security Partner among the 47 nations of the CMF.

CTF 154, established successful May 2023, is dedicated to enhancing maritime information done multinational grooming programs crossed the Middle East and the wider region.The task unit conducts regular Maritime Security Enhancement Training (MSET) events, exercises specified arsenic Compass Rose and Northern/Southern Readiness, and outreach to physique spouse nations' operational capabilities to code communal threats, including amerciable trafficking, piracy, and irregular migration, according to the release.CTF 154 operates alongside CMF's different task forces: CTF 150 (Maritime Security), CTF 151 (Counter-Piracy), CTF 152 (Maritime Security successful Arabian Gulf) and CTF 153 (Maritime Security successful Red Sea).