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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.

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