Summary:
The Japanese ships will participate in the exercise with the ships from the Eastern Naval Command (ENC). The Indian ships would be under the command of Rear-Admiral Dinesh K.
Tripathi, Flag Officer Commanding, Eastern Fleet. Two phasesJIMEX-18, spread over eight days, will comprise a Harbour Phase and a Sea Phase of four days each. The JMSDF ships are under the control of Rear-Admiral Tatsuya Fukada, Commander, Escort Flotilla-4 (CCF-4). The ships participating in the joint excercise are INS Satpura, multi-purpose stealth frigate, INS Kadmatt, Anti-Submarine Warfare Corvette, Missile Corvette and INS Shakti, the Fleet Tanker..