Theatre Level Operational Readiness Exercise (TROPEX) :

♤ It is one of the largest war drills spread over Indian Ocean , Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal region

♤ The drill involved large scale naval manoeuvres in all three dimensions surface, air and underwater like nuclear submarine INS Chakra

♤ Such war exercises helps to asses the operational readiness of naval units ,validate Navy’s war doctrines and integrate newly included capabilities in its Concept of Operations

♤ One of the major focus was to validate Navy’s network centric warfare capabilities. Recently launched GSAT-7 was utilized for this purpose.