{"id":24284,"date":"2026-09-23T12:43:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24284"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:35:13","slug":"exercise-tarang-shakti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-tarang-shakti\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Tarang Shakti"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Exercise Tarang Shakti 2026 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Air Force (IAF) will host the second edition of its largest-ever multinational air exercise, Tarang Shakti-26 in Jodhpur.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Exercise Tarang Shakti 2026<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>multinational air exercise to be conducted in Jodhpur.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>maiden edition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the exercise took place in <\/span><b>August-September 2024<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in two phases.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Participating Countries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Eight friendly foreign countries such as <\/span><b>Australia, Bangladesh, France, Germany, Greece, Sri Lanka, UAE and USA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will participate with air assets, while 32 nations will be attending as observers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is aimed at <\/span><b>enhancing interoperability<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> among participating air forces, while providing a platform for <\/span><b>exchanging operational experience<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and showcasing India\u2019s air combat capabilities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exercise will see the participation of advanced combat aircraft, including the U.S. Air Force\u2019s F-35, the French Rafale, the UAE\u2019s F-16 and a Bangladeshi C-130J.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IAF will field a range of its frontline platforms, including the <\/span><b>Rafale, Mirage-2000, Jaguar, <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lca-tejas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tejas<\/a>, MiG-29 and Su-30MKI.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/iaf-to-host-second-edition-of-multinational-air-exercise-tarang-shakti-26-this-week-10889829\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise Tarang Shakti 2026  is the multinational air exercise to be conducted in Jodhpur. Read more about Exercise Tarang Shakti, Participating Countries, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":125903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10440],"class_list":["post-24284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-exercise-tarang-shakti","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125883,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24284\/revisions\/125883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}