U.S. and Indian military conduct large-scale amphibious landing drill on Kakinada Beach in Andhra Pradesh as part of Tiger Triumph

U.S. and Indian military conduct large-scale amphibious landing drill in Andhra Pradesh as part of Tiger Triumph 2025.

Nearly 1,000 U.S. and Indian military personnel took part in a large-scale amphibious landing drill on Kakinada Beach in Andhra Pradesh, on Friday, for the culminating event in the Indo-U.S. bilateral and tri-services exercise Tiger Triumph 2025.

The event represented a humanitarian assistance and disaster response scenario in which the joint combined forces were tasked with securing space in a coastal area, as well as setting up a field hospital and supply distribution site, following a notional natural disaster.

In a statement, the U.S. Consul General of Hyderabad, Jennifer Larson, said that she was proud to be witnessing these exercises for the second time. 

“Every year this exercise builds on the previous one and breaks new ground,” she said.

“Our forces are working closer than ever before, and we see this relationship only getting stronger. It is through exercises like Tiger Triumph that the United States and India achieve mutual security objectives and assure a free and open Indo-Pacific region and beyond.” 

The amphibious landing concluded the sea phase of the exercise, which was preceded by a weeklong harbour phase in Visakhapatnam, consisting of operation planning, unit-level training, subject matter expert exchanges and cultural events.

A closing ceremony aboard the U.S. Navy’s Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Comstock (LSD 45) is scheduled to take place in the coming days to officially end the exercise.