Exercise Garuda begins in France

[jha]

SU-30 MKI Take off

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[jha]

IAF contingent at the flagging off ceremony

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[jha]

Air Marshal s Varthaman addressing the media

Air Marshal s Varthaman addressing the media on 07 June 2010 at the flagging off ceremony in Bareilly of Exercise Garuda


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[Break the Silence]

Thanx Mate for posting such Beautifull pics..Keep coming Bro!!

 

[sancho]

Nice pics Jha, but the mods should merge the threads, to have all pics together.

 

[sancho]

Nope not talking about active weapons (why destroy their shelf life). I am talking about missile dummy's. The reason for that being- it has a impact on manveurability, detection , etc. What kind of excercises are being carried out if they are practicing a real scenario.

The simulations of hits will be done by computers I guess, but it's normal that no weapons, or dummies will be carried as you can see on the older Garuda pics, or at Red Flag for example.

 

[sancho]

Pics made yesterday:

 

[sancho]

A new report about the exercise:

Ex Garuda Enters its Final Phase Air Marshal KK

Nowhar Visits IAF Contingent over 60 Missions Sucessfully Flown by the IAF Indian Ministry of Defence, June 23

The exercise Garuda 2010, presently underway at Istres Air Base in France, between the air forces of India France and Singapore has entered its final phase today. Over 60 missions have been successfully flown and the exercise would conclude on 25 Jun 2010.

During the exrecise, the six IAF SU-30MKI along with the Mirage-2000-5 and Rafale and the F-16 were engaged in various air defence manouvres such as implementation of "no fly zones" and large force engagements during day and night. The SU-30 also took part in the high value air borne asset protection as well as their protection busting missions. The IL-78 refuellers of the IAF and the KC-135 refuellers of the French Air Force also participated in various missions carrying out cross refuelling (i,e, refuelling the fighters of the other air forces). Refuelling denials were practised making these missions more difficult.

A unique feature to which the SU-30 were subjected was the "swing roles". In this type of missions, the same aircraft is simultaneously put to offensive as well as defensive roles. The E-3 AWACS provided the radar coverage during the Ex. The IAF special forces team "Garud" have so far carried out two jumps each by day and night along with the French special forces. Our IL-76 is undertaking the task of these drops.

Air Mshl KK Nowhar of the IAF who visited the contingent involved in the Garuda-2010 said - " Our participation in the Ex has reinforced the manner in which we conduct our operations. It has also helped us refine our doctrine. In future, there is a slim chance that a country would operate in isolation especially in a co-operative defence scenario. Thus knowing each others best practices in terms of tactics, techniques and procedures is the main objective of this exercise, which is also a part of the on-going Indo-French Defence Cooperation".

According to Air Attache, Embassy of India, France, Air Cmde SK Ghotia who is also the chief coordinator of the IAF-FAF Cooperation, Garuda-2010 is a milestone in the Indo-French defence cooperation. This has been the widest scope ever accomplished between three nations. The Ex brought together the best fighting machines of the world such as the Sukhois, F16s, Rafale and Mirage-2000-5. Our pilots flew in these cockpits and has gained tremendous learning experience. The engineers, technicians and all other members of the team have also benefitted substantially from the exercise.

The intensity of the Ex has been increased gradually to enhance the understanding of the contingent members begining with basic One-Vs-One missions and limited BVR capabilities, and then progressing to multi-aircraft strikes and counter air missions with complete BVR capability, and concluding with Large Force Engagement sorties.

The IAF contingent is expected to return back to India by 03 Jul 10.

 

[SpArK]

Amazing... Breathless.. mind blowing... sancho .. u are the man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[marcos98]

 

[marcos98]

 

[marcos98]

mods pls merge.....

 

[trident2010]

Su-30 MKI's are one of the best looking planes around .. Looks so cool along with IL-78 MKI

 

[tyagi]

^ that animation pictures. Lol.

no these are not animated pics.in one of the pic you can see the reflection of a person .

 

[Abingdonboy]

I thought all Su MKs had been replaced by the MKI, why then is there pics of SUs without canards in pics above?