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Exercise Bright Star 2025

  • 01 Sep 2025
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Source: PIB

Indian Armed Forces personnel are participating in the 19th edition of Exercise Bright Star 2025, which is being held in Egypt.

  • About: It is a biennial multilateral military exercise, recognized as one of the largest and longest-running tri-service drills in the Middle East–North Africa (MENA) region.
    • Hosted by Egypt in partnership with the US since 1980,  it has evolved from a bilateral US-Egypt initiative into a full-scale multilateral military exercise.
  • Objective: It aims to enhance jointness and interoperability among participating nations, promote regional peace, security, and stability, and strengthen multi-domain warfare preparedness through joint training.

Other Key Multilateral Military Exercises Involving India: 

Exercise Name

Hosting/Lead Countries (Along with India)

Malabar (Naval)

US, Japan, Australia

MILAN (Naval)

Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and several others

RIMPAC (Naval)

US, Australia, Canada, Japan, India and several others

IBSAMAR (Naval)

Brazil & South Africa

Read More: Major Military Exercises of India 

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