Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise ‘Simbex’ – 2022 at Visakhapatnam.
29/10/2022
Indian Navy is hosting the 29th edition of the Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise (SIMBEX) in Visakhapatnam from 26th to 30th October 2022.
SIMBEX-2022 is being conducted in 2 phases – Harbour Phase at Visakhapatnam from 26th to 27th October 2022 followed by the Sea Phase in Bay of Bengal from 28th to 30th October 2022.
Two ships of the Republic of Singapore Navy, RSS Stalwart (a Formable class warship) and RSS Vigilance (a Victory class yacht) had reached Visakhapatnam on 25th October 2022 to participate in the exercise.
The SIMBEX series of exercises was started in the year 1994. Initially it was known as Exercise Lion King.