- Cope India 2019: Joint exercise of Air forces of the US and India
- KONKAN-18: India-UK Naval exercise
- IND-INDO CORPAT: India–Indonesia Coordinated Patrol
- Samudra Shakti: Inaugural India-Indonesia Bilateral Naval Exercise held at the port of Surabaya, Indonesia
- Surya Kiran-XIII: India-Nepal joint military
- Indra 2018: Tri-service joint India-Russia military (proposed to be conducted in India)
- Maitree 2018: India-Thailand joint military exercise
- Vostok-2018: Russia's largest military exercise in Siberia (China and Mongolia participated)
- Rapid Trident: Ukraine's military exercise with NATO members
- Nomadic Elephant 2018: India-Mongolia joint exercise in Ulaanbaatar
- MILEX-18: 1st military exercise of BIMSTEC countries held in Pune (Nepal and Thailand did not participate)
- Aviaindra 18: India-Russia Air Force exercise in Russia
- Sahyog HOP TAC-2018: 1st India-Vietnam Coast Guards exercise in Bay of Bengal
- Dharma Guardian - 2018: The first ever joint military exercise between India and Japan to be conducted in Vairengte (Mizoram)
- Japan-India Maritime Exercise (JIMEX) : Conducted at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
- IBSAMAR-VI: A joint Multi – National Maritime Exercise between the Indian, Brazilian and South African Navies, is being held at Simons Town, South Africa
- Gagan Shakti 2018: To show air dominance over the entire extended region of Indian Ocean Region (IOR). IAF mobilied almost all of its assets to show the strength. It was conducted on western border, eastern border and, in south (maritime time targets in conjunction with Indian Navy).
- Vajra Prahar: India and USA
- Shakti IV: India and French
- KAKADU 2018: Multilateral regional maritime exercise conducted by Australia, Indian Naval Ship Sahyadri participated in the exercise
- Varun 2018: Bilateral Naval exercise between India and France
- Khanjar V: India and Kyrgyzstan
- EKUVERIN 2017: India-Maldives bilateral military exercise
- Harimau Shakti: India and Malaysia
- KAZIND 2018 and PRABAL DOSTYK: India and Kazakhstan
- Lamitye 2018: India and Seychelles
- Sagarmatha Friendship-2018/Mt Everest Friendship Exercise-2018: Joint military exercise between Nepal and China (Sagarmatha is the Nepali name for Mt Everest)
- Pitch Black 2018: A biennial multi-national large force employment warfare exercise was hosted by Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Indian Air Force had earlier participated in the exercise as observers and this was for the first time that IAF participated with air assets in the Exercise Pitch Black (PB-18).
- Hand-in-Hand 2018: Annual bilateral exercise between India and China
- SLINEX 2018: Bilateral Naval exercise between India and Sri Lanka