SLINEX

SLINEX (Sri Lanka India Naval Exercise) are a series of naval exercises between the Indian Navy and the Sri Lanka Navy.

SLINEX 2005
The first ever SLINEX exercise took place in 2005.

SLINEX 2013
SLINEX-13 was conducted off the coast of Goa from 04 – 07 Nov 13.

INS Talwar and SLNS Sagara participated in the exercise. The exercise was conducted over two phases with the harbour phase from 04 - 05 Nov 13 and the sea phase with debrief from 06 - 07 Nov 13.

The major activities conducted as part of the exercise were replenishment at sea approaches, visit, board, search, and seizure exercise, surface firing on a floating target, flying operations and asymmetric threat operations.

SLINEX 2015
The fourth SLINEX took place between October 27 and November 15, 2015, off Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. The vessels taking part included SLNS Sayura, SLNS Samudura, SLNS Sagara, INS Kora, INS Kirpan and INS Savitri.