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Tiger Triumph

The first-ever India-US joint tri services Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise, named ‘Tiger Triumph’, is being held from 13th-21st November, 2019.
  • The exercise will be conducted off Visakhapatnam and Kakinada coasts in Andhra Pradesh.
  • It aims to develop interoperability for conducting HADR operations.
  • Other joint exercises:
    • Military training: Yudh Abhyas and Vajra Prahar
    • Air Forces: Cope India
    • Naval Exercise along with Japan: Malabar
India has previously only held tri-service exercises with Russia.- Indra wargames 2017

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