此次演习的重点是摧毁敌方潜艇，光是美国就派出了7,000多人，并且第一次出现了三国海军均派出航空母舰的情景：美国的核动力航母尼米兹号、日本的出云号直升机航母，以及印度的维克拉玛蒂亚号（Vikramaditya）航母。
Focused on destroying enemy submarines, it involved more than 7,000 personnel from the US alone, and featured for the first time aircraft carriers from all three navies: America’s nuclear-powered USS Nimitz, Japan’s Izumo helicopter carrier, and India’s aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya.