<p>The <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/elephanta-boat-tragedy-colaba-police-probe-why-was-indian-navy-testing-boat-on-civilian-channels-23450351" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Indian Navy</a> conducted its 2025 edition of Theatre Level Operational Exercise (TROPEX) over a period of three months from January to March in the Indian Ocean, as per the official statement.</p>
<p>The exercise which ended in early March, has helped to reaffirm many of the Navy's concepts of operations.</p>
<p>According to the statement, the exercise included a Tactical Phase, Cyber and Electronic Warfare, and an Amphibious Exercise called AMPHEX, which is a Joint Work Up Phase centred on accurate delivery of ordnance on target.</p>
<p>The exercise offered a valuable assessment of the Navy's ability to defend national maritime security interests by responding to a variety of challenges in a coordinated and integrated manner.</p>
<p>The exercise's theatre of operations, which was conducted in the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/mumbai-experts-from-17-nations-to-help-save-endangered-dolphins-23392597" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Indian Ocean</a>, including the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, stretched roughly 4300 nm from north to south up to 35 degrees south latitude and 5000 nm from the Strait of Hormuz in the west to the Sunda and Lombok Straits in the east. &nbsp;</p>
<p>TROPEX 25 witnessed the participation of about 65&ndash;70 Indian Naval ships, 9&ndash;10 submarines, and more than 80 aircraft of various types. The exercise achieved a very high level of operational synergy in the planning and execution of theatre-level scenarios with the other services, it said.</p>
<p>It also witnessed extensive participation by the units of the Indian Army, Indian Air Force and Indian Coast Guard consisting of Sukhoi-30, Jaguar, C-130, Flight Refueller and AWACS aircraft, over 600 Infantry troops, and more than 10 ICG ships.</p>
<p>In addition to reaffirming the Navy's commitment to continue being a conflict-ready, credible, cohesive, and future-ready force, TROPEX 25 was the triumphant conclusion of a rigorous operational campaign intended to evaluate the Indian Navy's operational readiness and material readiness for conflict.</p>
<h2>Indian Navy's Ex INS Guldar to become India's first underwater museum and artificial reef</h2>
<p>In a historic step by the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/modi-govt-trying-to-make-india-surveillance-state-through-new-i-t-law-congress-23495454" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Government of India</a>, the Indian Navy handed over Ex INS Guldar, a Landing Ship Tank (Medium), to Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation Limited (MTDC) on 21 February 2025 to be converted into an underwater museum and artificial reef. This is the first initiative in India to use a decommissioned ship of the Indian Navy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The ship was handed over to MTDC at Karwar on an &lsquo;as is, where is&rsquo; basis. MTDC has taken the ship under their charge to convert it into an underwater museum and artificial reef. The conversion will be undertaken by MTDC and will involve complete cleaning of the ship to remove any potential pollutants/ hazardous materials, ensuring environmental clearances as per guidelines for marine conservation, obtaining various NOCs, and scuttling the ship at Sindhudurg, ensuring all safety precautions.</p><p>
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