India-France to conduct joint Airforce exercise in July
Indian Air Force will conduct a joint exercise with France next month. In this, The Air Force of India and France will try their skills in the sky. The special point of this would be that in this shared exercise, the strength of the Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraf of IAF will be tested with Rafale Fighter Jet of the French Air Force. This will be an important opportunity for the Indian Air Force when it will have the opportunity to test both its existing weapons and future weapons.
France and India had signed a strategic partnership agreement in 1998, and since then the two countries have continued military practice.
The Garuda 6 exercise starting in the first week of July will last for two weeks. For this, the Indian Air Force is carrying about 10 Sukhoi 30 fighter jets, with fuel tanker IL-78 and IL 76 capable of refueling in the air. This exercise will include more than 150 officers of the Air Force. Garuda practice was started in 2003 from Gwalior Airbase. After this many times these exercises have been done in India and France. The last time this practice took place in India’s Jodhpur airbase in 2014. With this practice, the Indian Air Force gets the chance to learn from the ways and means of the French Air Force, which is considered one of the best air force in the world.
India will receive 36 Rafale fighter aircraft from France, which are expected to come to India this year. Two squadrons of Rafale planes will be made, the first of which will be built in Ambala. Indian Air Force pilots and ground crews are in France to take training in this aircraft. With the arrival of Rafale, there will be a lot of increase in the firepower of the IAF, which has been struggling due to shortage of fighter jets since the last few years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself has said that if the IAF had Rafale, Mirage Aircraft would not have to enter the airspace of Pakistan to attack Balakot. Rafael is equipped with such missiles, which can be destroy targets from long distances.
