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Indian Fast Jets Fly Together With RAF In Ex Indradhanush
Jets from the Indian Air Force have been training alongside their British counterparts this week as part of a joint training mission.
Indian SU-30 fighter planes have been flying alongside Typhoons from RAF Coningsby, while paratroopers from both nations have been taking to the skies.
India's aircraft – which ordinarily operate from their Kalaikunda air base – were accompanied to the UK by single examples of its Boeing C-17 and Lockheed Martin C-130J transport planes, and an Ilyushin Il-78 tanker, the latter of which will remain at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire during their stay.
A previous exercise in 2007 saw India send six of its Su-30MKIs to RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, also to work with the RAF's Typhoons.
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