Exercise Sea Spark

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Seaspark-12

Highlighted area where the exercise were conduct
Type Pakistan Navy Naval exercise
Location Arabian sea
Planned by Naval Operations Branch
Objective Deployment of Pakistan Navy and amphibious assault forces
Date 17 September 2012
18 October 2012
Executed by VAdm Hasham Siddique, DCNS Operations[1]

Exercise Sea Spark is the codename of a series of major naval exercises conducted by the Pakistan Navy to simulate naval warfare and the protection of the country's maritime border.[2]

Operation Readiness

The exercise took place in the North Arabian Sea and started on 17 September 2012.[3] The navy officials stressed that exercises were aimed at assessing "operational readiness" and providing an opportunity to the officers and sailors to operate in a multi-threat environment and to exercise their responses accordingly.[4]

Deployment

The navy deployed all active-duty combatant ships, submarines, fighter jets and the special operations forces, including the entire division of Marines and the naval establishments to cover the entire gamut of naval operations.[5] The exercise also included the joint involvement of the army and air force for the special joint operations.[6] The navy put special emphasis on conventional and non-conventional war games, including the features of army (designated the "Blue forces") and air force (designated the Orange forces) pitching against navy (to determine the naval capabilities in joint operations) in specific threat environment.[1]

Notes and news release

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pakistan TOday (19 Sep 2012). "Pak Navy fully capable of meeting any emergency’". APP. Retrieved 1 November 2012. 
  2. ↑ PPI (18 September 2012). "SEASPARK -12: Navy starts exercises for operational readiness". The Tribune Express. Retrieved 1 November 2012. 
  3. ↑ "Navy maritime exercise SEASPARK-12 begins". Pakistan Armed Forces. Retrieved 1 November 2012. 
  4. ↑ our correspondent (18 September 2012). "Navy’s Seaspark-12 exercise commences". The News International. Retrieved 1 November 2012. 
  5. ↑ Press Release (1 September 2012). "Navy exercise SEASPARK-12 goes off". Pakistan Today. Retrieved 1 November 2012. 
  6. ↑ From the Newspaper (18 September 2012). "Seaspark-12 gets under way". Dawn Newspapers. Retrieved 1 November 2012. 

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