India, South Korea joint anti-piracy, search and rescue exercise ‘Sahyog-Hyeoblyeog 2018’ was conducted in Bay of Bengal off the Chennai coast in Tamil Nadu.
The exercise was conducted between Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and Korean Coast Guard (KCG) as part of proposed establishment of MoU between them to improve maritime security in Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
In this exercise, ICG’s Dornier aircraft and ICG Shaurya, Rani Abbakka, C-423, C-431 from India participated.
From Korean side KCG’s deployed ship BADARO participated.