India-China Joint Military Training Exercise HAND-IN-HAND 2015 will be conducted at Kunming Military Academy of Yunnan province in China from 12 to 23 October 2015.
It will be the fifth joint military exercise in the Hand-in-Hand series between armies of both countries which had started in 2007.
Key facts of the exercise
- Broaden and strengthen interoperability and cooperation between armies of both countries as well as complement a number of other exchanges between the two forces.
- This edition of exercise will lay emphasis on joint handling of insurgency at sub-unit level and related issues.
- It will also cover aspect of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief at formation headquarters level.
- The curriculum of exercise has been planned progressively in order to make participants to get familiar with each other’s organisational structure, weapons, equipment and tactical drills.