The annual drills, now in their 45th year and designated a “heavy year”, will be co-hosted by the Thai military and the US Indo-Pacific Command in Thailand.
Seven countries will participate as core members: Thailand, the United States, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia. China, India and Australia will join additional training activities.
Ten countries will take part under the Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) framework: Bangladesh, Canada, Fiji, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand and the Philippines.
Another ten will join as observers under the Combined Observer Liaison Team (COLT): Brunei, Germany, Jordan, Laos, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Timor-Leste and Vietnam.
The exercise aims to strengthen military cooperation and develop combined joint all-domain operations, covering land, sea, air, space and cyber domains.
Key activities include a command and control exercise, humanitarian and disaster relief operations, and a field training exercise featuring amphibious landings, non-combatant evacuation, live-fire drills, long-range fires, maritime strikes, air and missile defence, counter-drone operations, counter-landing drills and signals intelligence training.
Cobra Gold has been held annually in Thailand and is one of the longest-running multinational military exercises in Southeast Asia.
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