Exercise La Perouse

News: India’s indigenous guided missile destroyer INS Mumbai is participating in the 5th edition of exercise La Perouse. 

About Exercise La Perouse

 

• The naval exercise is being organised in the straits between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean: Malacca, Sunda and Lombok. 
  • These straits constitute important sea lanes of communication, emphasising their economic and strategic significance. 
• The exercise aims to strengthen military safety and develop common maritime situational awareness by enhancing cooperation in the field of maritime surveillance, maritime interdiction operations, air operations. 
• Navies from India, France, Indonesia, Australia, US, UK, Malaysia, Singapore, and Canada are participating in the exercise. 
• The exercise will feature complex multi-domain exercises like surface warfare, anti-air warfare, air defence, cross deck landings and tactical manoeuvres and VBSS (Visit, Board, Search and Seizure) operations. 

Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse  He was a French Navy Officer and one of the greatest French Navigator of the 18th century.  In 1785, he was entrusted by King Louis XVI to lead a global expedition to complete James Cook’s discoveries in the Pacific and study the possibilities of trade with the countries visited.  During this global expedition, he commanded two frigates: the Boussole and the Astrolabe.  The expedition tragically ended in 1788 when the ship wrecked on the reefs of Vanikoro in the Soloman Islands.