Indian & Malaysian Army commenced “Exercise Harimau Shakti 2023” a joint bilateral training exercise on October 23 in Umroi Cantonment, India.
The training will focus primarily on high degree of physical fitness, conduct of drills at tactical level and sharing of best practices with each other. The Exercise will culminate with a 48-hour long validation exercise in a semi-urban area.
Both sides will rehearse employment of joint forces in jungle/ semi urban/ urban environment. In addition, intelligence collection, collation and dissemination drills will also be rehearsed.
Exercise HARIMAU SHAKTI is aimed to enhance the level of defence co-operation between Indian Army and the Malaysian Army, which will also foster the bilateral relations between the two nations.
Last edition of the Exercise was conducted in Pulai, Kluang, Malaysia in November 2022.