BANGKOK: Malaysia is to participate in this year’s Cobra Gold, world’s longest running and largest multinational military exercise in Southeast Asia, which is back to full scale after downsized over the last three years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Co-hosted by the Royal Thai Armed Forces and United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), this year’s exercise is the 42nd iteration with a total of 30 participating countries comprising 7,394 personnel.