Indian Air Force in Australia for Ex Pitch Black 2024: An Indian Air Force (IAF) contingent landed at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Darwin, Australia for participation in Exercise Pitch Black 2024 which took place from 2 July to 2 August 24.
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Cobra Warrior 23-1 at RAF Waddington and RAF Coningsby: Cobra Warrior (CW) is a Royal Air Force exercise that takes place twice a year. CW 23-1 took place from 6–24 March 2023. The exercise focussed on training international allies in developing operational tactics in the air.
Breaking Storm! Richard Gardner reports from London: The news that negotiations between the European 6th Generation Tempest fighter team and Japan were at an advanced stage emerged during the 2022 Farnborough International air show in July .
MMRCA – Bees Saal Baad! (20 years later): In the sixties and seventies, the IAF, with its superior capability, played a pivotal role in dominating the battlefield and changing the course of war in India’s favour.
Ocean Sky meets EART: This year for the very first time two major exercises combined their forces to meet their goals together. Ocean Sky 2021 and EART (European Air Refueling Training) 2021 joined up at the Canary Islands to get the most out of both exercises.
Exercise Atlantic Trident: This triumvirate sits within a select group of Air Forces in the world capable of conducting all types of conventional air operations.
Italian Tornados practice EW in German ranges: For two weeks from 28 September to 9 October 2020, six Italian AF Panavia Tornado ECR fighters operated from the German airbase at Nörvenich, the aircraft from 6 ° Stormo which is based at Ghedi in north Italy.
Canary Islands organised the Ocean Sky 2020 an air combat exercise from 19 to 30 October 2020. Geographically separated from the Spanish mainland and located just off the coast of Morocco, the Canary Islands provides a unique airspace for a large-scale exercise.
Allied Air Command-Air Policing flight: On 14 January 2020, a media flight was organised by NATO Allied Air Command Ramstein, overflying several countries in northern Europe that sent up their QRA/Air Policing aircraft to intercept our Belgian Airbus A321.
Exercise Blue Flag 2019: The fourth edition of the biennial exercise Blue Flag took place between 3-14 November 2019 at Ovda Air Base in southern Israel
Rafael's Typhoon Mk-30c incorporates an on-mount Electro-Optical Director with a state-of-the-art Fire Control System to optimise effective surveillance and engage threats in all weather conditions, day and night.
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.
With the aim of sharing experiences, increasing interoperability, exemplary values and team spirit as a guiding principle, the NATO Tiger Meet has developed into an important exercise within NATO in more than 50 years.
The Royal Netherlands Air Force participated with F-16s from Volkel and Leeuwarden, while the Polish Air Force brought their new F-16Cs.
NATO Allied Air Command has its headquarter at Ramstein Air Base (Germany) and is led by US Air Force General (4 star) Tod D. Wolters. The Air Command has various tasks to perform including maintenance of NATO’s Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) and carrying out peacetime NATO Air Policing.
The IAF has recently issued another RFI for multi-role combat aircraft and the same six companies have responded offering with the MiG-35, the Rafale, the Typhoon, the Gripen, the Lockheed-Martin F-16 and the Boeing F/A-18.
The second objection is that this RFI does not seem to be any different for what would have been if released for heavy fighters such as the Su-30MKI or the Su-35.
This year, various CAMAO war scenarios were flown which imitate contemporary reality of war. Besides the intensive training, the NATO Tiger Meet also concerns the social aspects of the annual meeting with intention being to bring the audience and the participating units closer to each other.
It is natural that IAF will aspire the Meteor BVRAAM to arm a significant proportion of the fleet additionally including Sukhoi Su-30MKI and Tejas.
There are some significant differences that come into play in this repeat MMRCA process. In the previous evaluation, there were one or two aircraft that may have been considered as still under development, for example the Gripen-NG and the MiG-35.
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