{"id":3330,"date":"2023-02-26T05:54:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T00:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:15:50","slug":"exercise-desert-flag-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-desert-flag-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Desert Flag VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Exercise Desert Flag VIII:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an annual <strong>multinational<\/strong> <strong>large-force employment warfare<\/strong> exercise hosted by the UAE Air Force.<\/li>\n<li>The IAF would be participating with five Light Combat Aircraft, LCA Tejas and two C-17 Globemaster III aircraft.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Participants:<\/strong> Air Forces from UAE, France, Kuwait, Australia, the UK, Bahrain, Morocco, Spain, the Republic of Korea, and the USA would also be participating.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise is scheduled from the 27th of February to the 17th of March.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>India\u2019s Joint Military Exercises with the UAE:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>With the UAE, India has In-UAE BILAT (bilateral naval exercise) as well as Desert Eagle-II (bilateral air force exercise).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is C-17 Globemaster III ?<\/h3>\n<p>Globemaster III is one of the fastest platforms to ever reach 4M flight hours, enabling humanitarian relief and completing critical missions worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Indian-Air-Force-contingent-reaches-in-UAE-to-participate-in-Exercise-Desert-Flag-VIII&amp;id=456464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Air Force contingent reaches in UAE to participate in Exercise Desert Flag VIII<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is an annual multinational large-force employment warfare exercise hosted by the UAE Air Force<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3330","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\/3330","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=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}