In an effort to hone its capabilities to fight in all kinds of terrain and weather, the para-commandos and Special Forces carried out two-day drill in the peninsular region of the country on March 14 and 15.
This drill came days after the commandos carried out a similar drill in the strategically important Siliguri corridor near Sikkim. Two similar exercises were conducted near the Line of Actual Control(LAC)in Ladakh and Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Islands last year.
The latest exercise saw the army carrying out a two-day airborne insertion and rapid response exercise in the country's peninsular region in sync with its overall approach to maintain operational readiness, officials said here on Tuesday.
The exercise that concluded on Tuesday involved advanced aerial insertion techniques, or air dropping of soldiers, "combat free fall" and integrated battle drills by airborne and Special Forces troops.
The airborne and Special Forces of the Indian Army practiced their aerial insertion capability and rapid response anywhere on the mainland and in its island territories, in an airborne exercise in Peninsular India on March 14 and 15, officials said here on Tuesday. As regards the importance of the Siliguri corridor where the Army conducted the drill ten days back, they said it is a stretch of land bordering Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. It connects the Northeast region with the rest of India and is considered crucial from the military perspective.