India-Israel Joint Airforce Exercises?

[indian_sukhoi]

Hey Guys.

I was having a Disscussions about Air-Exercises in anohter Indian forum and we were just thinking about it.

Did Indian Airforce ever had a Air Exercises with Israel Airforce?.


IAF has a lot of Exercises with other freindly Nations but Surprising till now we didnt have even once excercise with our close friend & an expert airforce Israel.

In the recent 2006 and present 2007 we had Exercises French, USAF and Royal Airforce. Singapore, France & Americans are having regular excercises with IAF, Infact France is our oldest partner in this is Britain, South Africa and Others .



The Point is there is an Intresting Fact.

India - maintance Mig-29, Su-30, Mig-23,Mig-21 and many Other MiG Variants
Israel - maintance F-16,F-15 and also some Mirage-III
Both Countries Enemy nations maintance same Aircrafts

Pakistan-operates F-16, Mirage-III &V
Syria - operates Mig-29, Mig-23, Mig-21
Other Middile East Coutries Opertaes MiG Variants

So why dont India and Israel have Close Air-Exercises and get to know eacother Aircraft Capabilites. Israel can give us information about F-16s & Mirage-IIIs and Israel can learn about MiGs and Sukhois. But Offcourse the Tactics and Doctrine will wont be same but still once can learn a lot more about these Aircraft then hearing it.

Indian Airforce can get some classified info about F-16s from israel & take necessary steps to counter it.




Cheers,
Jai Hind

[shelory]

it would be to hard for israel to get its aircraft to india, as they would need to ship it to there or fly it to there witch is pretty hard as they would need to pass enemy airspace to get there.

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[indian_sukhoi]

YEP, Your right about that. I never realized that problems before.

Maybe India has a chance to go pass form the Middle East Countries.



Did Israel Airforce have Exercises with Other Nations. I Just Hope IAF will have a chance for an Exercies with the IsAF in near futher. Has we are getting Israel Phalcons AWACS we need to have an Exercises with Israel for more learning.

The Indian Airforce need a lot of training with the AWACS systems to form their Tactics well and be prepared. This was extremely important as our own AWACS will start arriving by 2008.

In recent Air-Exercises with India, French and Britan had bringed thier AWACS with them which was very helpful for India.

[shelory]

to my knowledge Israel had air to air and air to ground (im not sure about the ground) Exercises with the US, i think in the red flag Exercises, and with Turkey. both of the exercises where don in there territory because israel needs some where to practice long range battles in wide open airspace. it would be nice to see the two IAF's (Israeli and Indian) fighting it out, as both of them have gotten better scours in exercises with the US then the US.

[anupkmisra]

Israel and India could conduct trilateral exercises with a third nation (an EU nation or USA). Great for all of them to learn something from each other.

[shelory]

yeah we could have a real exercise over Audi Arabia :)

[Ultra Requete]

Is the relationship between Ethiopia and Israel so bad or do you mean Eritrea?(the map is a liitle outtdated) Why don't use the northern corridor throu Turkey, Iraq and Persian Gulf? It woud shake the Mullahs up:rolleyes:

[*titanium*]

If they flew across the red sea and the indian ocean they could get to India, it would be better if Indias airfroce flew to Israel because the red sea gets very narrow at yemen and the surrounding countries might get 'aggitated' and seeing as it is a very long distance, you cant take any payload eg air to air missiles with you, so its not so safe.

[tycom]

I don't speak English. I don't understand English but I love Israel. Tôi là người Việt Nam

[indian_sukhoi]

Check this out. I Think India-Israel do had a some Exercises between in secret way.


IAF and IDFAF to exchange pilots:notworthy:


In already growing close relationship by India and Israeli has got a new boost when Indian air force (IAF) and Israel Defense Forces/Air Force (IDFAF) have agreed to exchange pilots between the two air arm, IDFAF pilot posted in India will be flying MiG-29B Baaz operating from Adampur Airbase which is located in western India (Punjab) 100 kilometers East of the Pakistan border, Adampur is one of 14 Indian Airbases under the Western Air Command within 300 kilometers of the Pakistan border. Adampur Airbase is home to at least 70 combat aircraft including two squadrons of MiG- 29s, (No. 47 Squadron - MiG-29A/C/UB” Black Archers”, No. 223 Squadron - MiG-29A/C/UB “Tridents”) two squadrons of MiG-23s and a squadron of MiG- 21s, while IAF pilot will be attached with Israeli Tayset squadron which operates F-16C/D Barak from Hatzor air force base Located near the lower west coast of Israel , Hatzor airbase is home to three squadrons of F-16 A/B/C/D operated by 101 , 105 , 144 Squadrons by IDFAF , similarly pilots from the Transport wing will also be exchanged IAF pilot will be attached to C-130 Squadron and a IDFAF pilot will be attached to IL-76 Squadron and IAF Helicopter pilot will be attached to CH-53 Squadron and a IDFAF pilot will be attached to MI-17 units ,this exchanged pilots will carry out routine training sorties from their respected posted Squadrons and after completion of their tenure will be replaced by other pilots from their respected air forces, Mig-29 is also operated by Syria and Iran which have hostile relationship with Israel and F-16 is operated by Pakistan which has hostile relationship with India ,these agreement will help deep understanding of functioning and tactics of each others air arm and also give deep insight into aircrafts operated by their rivals


http://www.idrw.org/2007/10/18/iaf_a...ge_pilots.html (http://www.idrw.org/2007/10/18/iaf_and_idfaf_to_exchange_pilots.html)