{"id":24959,"date":"2024-07-12T11:42:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T06:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24959"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:57:25","slug":"exercise-pitch-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-pitch-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Pitch Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Exercise Pitch Black:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>biennial<\/strong> and <strong>multi- national exercise<\/strong> hosted by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)\n<ul>\n<li>The name &#8216;Pitch Black&#8217; was derived from the emphasis on <strong>night time flying<\/strong> over large un-populated areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The 2024 edition is slated to be the largest in the <strong>43 year long history of Ex Pitch Black<\/strong>, which includes participation <strong>by 20 countries<\/strong>, with over 140 aircraft and 4400 military personnel of various air forces.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise will be focusing on Large Force Employment warfare aimed at strengthening international cooperation and shall facilitate experience enhancement with the <strong>IAF Su-30 MKI<\/strong> operating alongside the <strong>F-35, F-22, F-18, F-15, Gripen<\/strong> and Typhoon fighter aircraft.<\/li>\n<li>The IAF contingent comprises of over 150 highly skilled Air Warriors including pilots, engineers, technicians, controllers and other subject matter experts, who will be operating the formidable Su-30 MKI multirole fighters, with the <strong>C -17 Globemaster and the IL-78<\/strong> Air-to-Air Refuelling aircraft in combat enabling roles.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise would provide IAF with an opportunity towards force integration with participating nations and mutual exchange of best practices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong> The exercise provides an excellent opportunity for strengthening the ability of the participating nations to deploy over large distances, support integrated operations in the <strong>Indo-Pacific region<\/strong> and building strong aviation associations in a highly challenging environment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Previous participation of India:<\/strong> The IAF has previously participated in <strong>the 2018 and 2022 editions of this exercise.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is C-17 Globemaster III?<\/h3>\n<p>Its military airlift aircraft is a high-wing, four-engine, T-tailed military transport vehicle capable of carrying payloads up to 169,000lb (76,657kg).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2032498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">INDIAN AIR FORCE CONTINGENT LANDS IN AUSTRALIA TO PARTICIPATE IN EX PITCH BLACK 2024<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise Pitch Black is a biennial and multi- national exercise hosted by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24959","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=24959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}