'Poorna Vijay' ends

NEW DELHI, MAY 11. Indian armed forces' biggest wargames codenamed ``Operation Poorna Vijay'', testing the conventional warfare capabilities in the nuclear backdrop, concluded today.

Participating in the wargames, 40,000 troops, 500 tanks and infantry combat vehicles and 120 warplanes criss- crossed hundreds of miles of Thar desert in Rajasthan to test survival techniques in nuclear, biological and chemical battle scenarios.

The exercise also trained troops on undertaking deep armoured thrusts involving self-contained battle-groups consisting of armoured divisions, mechanised formations and their mobile artillery components. The exercise, in four phases, was carried out in western Thar desert, 60 km away from the Ganganagar international border, Bhatinda, Jalandhar, Gurdaspur and Pokhran firing range. An Army spokesman said all mission objectives had been accomplished.

- PTI

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