{"id":7627,"date":"2022-11-09T02:28:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7627"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:23:43","slug":"garuda-vii-air-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/garuda-vii-air-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Garuda-VII Air Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Garuda-VII Air Exercise:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a bilateral exercise between Indian Air Force (IAF) and French Air and Space Force (FASF).<\/li>\n<li>It provides a unique opportunity for both Air Forces to learn and imbibe each other\u2019s best practices during operations while also highlighted the growing interoperability between the two Air Forces.<\/li>\n<li>Ex Garuda-VII is also the first occasion for the light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas and the light combat helicopter (LCH) Prachand to participate in any international exercise.<\/li>\n<li>It includes four Rafale fighters and one A-330 multi-role tanker transport aircraft from the French side.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from the LCA and LCH, the IAF contingent consists of Su-30 MK-I, Rafale and Jaguar fighter aircraft, as well as Mi-17 helicopters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>History:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the seventh edition of the bilateral exercise.<\/li>\n<li>The first, third and fifth editions were conducted in India in 2003, 2006 and 2014 at Air Force Stations Gwalior, Kalaikunda and Jodhpur, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>The second, fourth and sixth editions were conducted in France in 2005, 2010 and 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GPRAG7PR6.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garuda-VII provided the two Air Force regiments with the opportunity for professional interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7627","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\/7627","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=7627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}