India joins U.S.’s Red Flag air and RIMPAC naval exercises

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Exercise Red Flag:

Multinational air exercise Red Flag, Alaska (USA), May 30 – June 13, 2024.
Indian Air Force (IAF) will participate.
Deployment:
- Aircraft: 8 Rafale fighters, 3 C-17 transport aircraft, 2 IL-78 mid-air refuelling aircraft.
- Transit: Staging halts in Greece and Portugal.
Objective: To integrate aircrews in a multinational environment and provide advanced aerial combat training.
Participants: Approximately 3,100 service members and over 100 aircraft from 4 nations.
Operations: Conducted over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex, the largest combat training range in the world.
IAF History: Previous participation included SU-30MKI fighter jets.

Exercise RIMPAC:

Event: Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), Hawaii, June 25 – August 2, 2024.
Indian Navy will participate.
Deployment: Indigenous stealth frigate INS Shivalik.
Objective: Enhance interoperability with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), US Navy, and other partner navies.
Participants: 29 nations, 40 surface ships, 3 submarines, 14 national land forces, over 150 aircraft, and more than 25,000 personnel.
- This year’s participants in RIMPAC include forces from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, U.K. and the U.S.
Scope: The world’s largest international maritime exercise, held biennially since 1971.

Japan-India maritime exercise JIMEX-24:

Indian Navy said that INS Shivalik, mission deployed to the South China Sea and Pacific Ocean, departed Singapore on May 30 for onward passage to Yokosuka, Japan to participate in Japan-India maritime exercise JIMEX-24 scheduled to be held mid-June and then onward to RIMPAC-24.

Source: TH