Exercise Tarang Shakti

About Exercise ‘Tarang Shakti:

• It will be the largest international air exercise ever conducted in India, with invitations extended to 51 countries.
• This exercise aims to strengthen strategic relations with our friends from the international community.
• Objective: The plan is to invite friendly foreign countries with whom the IAF interacts regularly and has a certain degree of interoperability.
• Participating countries: Fifty-one countries were invited to take part in the exercise and nearly 30 of them will be taking part in it
  • Phase one of the exercise will be conducted at Sulur in Tamil Nadu from August 6 to August 14 and four countries including France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom will participate with their assets.
  • Phase two will be held at Jodhpur in Rajasthan from September 1 to 14 and it will see participation from Australia, Bangladesh, Greece, Singapore, UAE and the USA with their assets.
• It represents a unique opportunity for these nations to collaborate and enhance their tactical and operational capabilities.

Q1: What is a strategic relationship?

It is a comprehensive concept that uses states to have relations with one another in political, social, cultural, religious, economic and security areas and the like.

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