Posted on 02/22/2010 8:56:13 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The IAF is planning to hold a joint war game with the Chinese Air Force in 2012, even as it prepares to showcase its capabilities to fight a war during "day, dusk and night" on February 28 in Rajasthan.
The planning for the joint exercise with China's People’s Liberation Army (Air Force) had already commenced and the exercise will be held keeping with its policy of joining an international war game biennially, IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik told reporters here on Monday.
"As far as China is concerned, around 2012 we hope we will also be able to do an exercise with China as the Army has already taken a lead in this. Planning has already commenced, but political acceptance, suitable dates etc take some time to come," Naik said to a question on a possible joint exercise with the PLA Air Force in the near future.
On the fire power demonstration at Pokhran ranges codenamed Vayu Shakti-2010, he said this would be the largest ever air force exercise aimed at showcasing the IAF's prowess and capabilities to the nation to which defence attaches from foreign nations have been invited.
To be witnessed by President Pratibha Patil and Defence Minister A K Antony, the exercise would have a total of 105 aircraft, including the potent Sukhoi fighter jets pounding simulated targets in the Rajasthan deserts to demonstrate its precision, speed and lethality, he added.
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You’re welcome! Actually the exercises are past-tense. I’m not able to locate it now, but the US held a military exercise with China, last year.
“They are. Can’t have 1B+ people each living next door, and not be competitors. The Indians made their nukes not because they’re worried about the morons in “Pok-e-ston” but because they’ve got 300M Chinese next door that’d love the weather on coast of Indian Ocean.”
Technology, education, and economics counts for far more than the amount of land a country has nowadays. By your standards, Japan would be an aggressive country since it only has 4 tiny islands while Russia should be a paragon of peace(since it has so much territory).
I don’t think India and China necessarily have to be strategic competitors(unless their leaders are idiots of course).
No offense, but you have either completely misunderstood, or are extremely naive about geopolitics.
Japan has about NEGATIVE population growth rate and is ONLY 127M, furthermore, it has been collectively victimized by WWII to never be agressive again. Chinese and Indian cultures are completely different, and there’s 10x of them.
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