EXERCISE MISSIONS OF INDRADHANUSH BEGINS

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EXERCISE MISSIONS OF INDRADHANUSH BEGINS

Kolkata, October 21, 2010

 

The flying exercise missions of Indo-UK Air Exercise Indradhanush began yesterday, 20 Oct 2010 at Air Force Station Kalaikunda. Elaborate briefings on standard operating procedures, rules of exercise and familiarization of the local flying area etc were carried on initial two days of the exercise.

 

The Royal Air Force is participating with Typoon Eurofighters, the    E 3 D Sentry, and VC-10 mid air refueller  while the IAF has fielded the SU-30 MKIs, Mirage 2000s,  Mig 27s and its AWACS ( for the first time in a joint Air Exercise). These assets would be combined along with the aircrew and then divided into the blue and red forces. The red forces are the agressors while blue forces are the defending side. The roles of the participants are changed through out the exercise. The degree of difficulty during the exercise missions is increased by random denial of mid air refueling, and radar silence etc. The major highlight of the exercise is large no of aircraft operating together and against each other in limited time and space putting the skills of the pilots and the fighter controllers to test. This is known as large force engagement operations (LFE).

 

The commander of the Air Force base at Kalaikunda, Air Commodore DK Vashist said "Kalaikunda has the necessary infrastructure which is necessary for an international exercise of this magnitude. He also said "the aim of the exercise is to enhance mutual understanding and refine procedures. During this exercise a specific emphasis will be laid on exposing the controllers (ATC & AWACS) to large force engagements and protection of high value aerial assets.

 

The Exercise Indradhanush concludes on 03 November 2010.

 

sc/dk/kol/13:26 hrs.

 

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Palash Biswas
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