IAF at Red Flag 2024, USA and then Indonesia: An IAF contingent arrived on 30 May 2024 at the Eielson AF Base of the USAF at Alaska, USA, to participate in the next edition of the multi-national exercise Red Flag 24.
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IAF and Exercise Orion 2023: An Indian Air Force (IAF) contingent departed for France, to participate in Exercise Orion at Mont-de-Marsan, an Air Force base of the French Air and Space Force (FASF) on 10 April 2023.
Dassault Rafales arrive in the Hellenic Air Force (HAF): The delivery of the next HAF Rafale will start at the end of 2022 with the objective to have all the fleet deployed at Tanagra Air Base by the summer of 2023.
Défilé 2021, Paris: The Marine Nationale aircraft flew from their homebases Base Aerienne Navale (BAN) Landivisiau (with Rafales) and BAN Lann-Bihoue (with Atlantic, E-2 Hawkeye, Falcon 50M).
Indigenisation thrust in maintaining IAF Fleet: The IAF has already identified indigenisation requirements of approximately 4000 lines of spares.
Tatoi Tecnam’s in Greek pilot-training and modernisation: The flying part of the course for cadets is of 30 sorties, amounting up to 36 flight hours. Major Papadakis explained that “we begin to train the cadets for solo flights.
Exercise ‘Royal Blackhawk 2020’: The helicopters of the 1st Combat Helicopter Regiment operated alongside different helicopters of the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade (US Army). Like every year the Exercise was realistic and faithful to its objectives, making it particularly possible to train the mortar sections.
Dassault Rafales for the Indian Air Force IAF: Some 7000 kilometres to the west is Merignac, a suburb of Bordeaux in France, where another ceremony took place with the Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh formerly accepting the first Dassault Rafale for the Indian Air Force.
This year, the parade was conducted using Aerienne Evreux as the main airbase. The morning session witnessed Rafales and Mirage 2000staking off from runway 04 alongside their foreign counterparts such as Spanish and British Eurofighters, German Tornado, Belgian F-16.
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