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31/08/22 13:54 PM IST

Pitch Black Exercise

In News 
  • The Indian Air Force (IAF) will join 16 other nations, including Quad partner countries for Exercise Pitch Black, the biennial exercise hosted by the Australian Air Force.
About the Exercise 
  • The warfare exercise takes place once every two years and is hosted by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
  • The aim of this exercise is to practice Offensive Counter Air (OCA) and Defensive Counter Air (DCA) combat. The exercise takes place in a simulated war environment.
  • The first Pitch Black exercise took place on June 15-16 1981 between the RAAF units.
India- Australia 
  • Building on a long history of cooperation - including our shared experience in the trenches of World War I in Gallipoli and along the Western Front - Australia and India have a positive defence relationship, underpinned by the 2006 Memorandum on Defence Cooperation and the 2009 Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation.
  • The Australia–India defence relationship now encompasses almost every major function of the military: strategic dialogues, coordination, and information exchanges; military exercises involving ground, air and maritime forces.
  • Australia and India are committed to working together to enhance maritime cooperation and have had AUSINDEX since 2015.
Source- Indian Express 

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