Exercise La Perouse 2023

March 2023, the multilateral cooperation Exercise La Perouse 2023 brought together seven nations involved in maritime security in the Indo-Pacific area: Australia, Canada, the United States, France, India, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Eight ships and seven aircraft came together in the Bay of Bengal to conduct a series of high-level training exercises to strengthen interoperability between the partner navies. The participating ships were:

• the French amphibious ship Dixmudeand frigate La Fayette,
• the Japanese destroyer Suzutsuki,
• the Indian frigate Sahyadri and the replenishment ship Jyoti,
• the Australian frigate Perth,
• the US littoral combat ship Charleston, and
• the British patrol vessel

La Perouse 2023 included air defence exercises, officer-of-the-watch manoeuvres, replenishment at sea, gunnery exercises and helicopter cross-deck training.