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The exercise commenced on September 15 and will continue until September 28, bringing Indian Army and Myanmar Army personnel together for two weeks of joint training, professional exchanges and familiarisation with each other’s operational practices.
MIGM stands for Multi-Influence Ground Mine. Unlike the traditional image of a naval mine that explodes after physical contact with a vessel, MIGM is designed to detect the signatures generated by ships and submarines moving through the water.
The Indian Air Force has demonstrated an indigenously developed unmanned traffic management system designed to
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim confirmed the discussions on September 13, 2026, a day after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi. Anwar said the two leaders had discussed the missile and acknowledged that initial-level discussions had already taken place, while stressing that Malaysia had not yet made a final procurement decision.
The significance of the exercise lies in the nature of the targets involved. Rather than restricting the trials to conventional aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicles, the IAF used precision stand-off weapons as aerial targets, testing whether its ground-based air-defence systems could respond to relatively compact, fast-moving weapons approaching defended installations.
The decision emerged from the 19th India-Vietnam Joint Commission Meeting on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation held in New Delhi on September 14, 2026. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar co-chaired the meeting with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Lê Hoài Trung.
Bharat Forge announced the collaboration on September 15, saying the two companies would work together to assess the suitability and integration requirements of Pratt & Whitney Canada’s propulsion technology for the indigenous unmanned aircraft.
The nine Licensing Agreements for Transfer of Technology, or LAToTs, are intended to enable commercial production of technologies developed by DRDO. The move forms part of a larger effort to shorten the transition from indigenous research and development to industrial production and eventual deployment by the armed forces.
This year’s exercise places particular emphasis on preparing the two armies to operate together in mountainous and semi-mountainous terrain while integrating infantry formations with surveillance systems, autonomous platforms and contemporary battlefield technologies.
Developed by DRDO’s Defence Laboratory, Jodhpur, the Low Cost Plug-n-Play Thermal Target System, or LC-TTS, has been placed under DRDO’s Transfer of Technology programme. The technology was published for industry participation on September 10, 2026, with two licences currently available.
