Exercise ‘Nomadic Elephant’ started in Umroi, Meghalaya
- Exercise ‘Nomadic Elephant’ started in Umroi, Meghalaya on 3 July.
- This is the 16th edition of Nomadic Elephant, an India-Mongolia joint military exercise.
- It is a two-week training event that will conclude on 16 July.
- It seeks to improve communication between the troops of the two countries in semi-conventional operations in semi-urban and mountainous areas.
- Every year, this training event alternates between Mongolia and India.
- The fifteenth edition of the event took place in 2023 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
- In 2023, soldiers from the Indian Army’s Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment and Mongolian Armed Forces Unit 084 took part in the drill.
- The 12th Joint Working Group conference between the Indian and Mongolian defence ministries was held in Ulaanbaatar from May 16–17 of this year.
