{"id":51082,"date":"2017-03-29T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=51082"},"modified":"2017-03-26T15:42:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T13:42:32","slug":"29-00-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=51082","title":{"rendered":"Israel to host seven overseas air forces for largest ever drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/times.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"45%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-to-host-seven-overseas-air-forces-for-massive-drill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Israel to host seven overseas air forces for largest ever drill<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>SUE SURKES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>France, Germany, India and Italy to join previous participants Greece, Poland and US for massive exercise with IAF<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.timesofisrael.com\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22542577466_e287821a3f_o.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Israeli and foreign fighter jets fly in formation through cloudy skies over the Negev desert during the &#8216;Blue Flag&#8217; exercise at Ovda Airfield near Eilat on October 27, 2015. (Israeli Air Force)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Israel will host air forces from seven countries this fall for a drill hailed as the largest exercise ever held in the skies above Israel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">France, Germany, India and Italy will be actively joining previous participants Greece, Poland and the US, in what Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, the IAF\u2019s international affairs chief, hailed as the biggest air exercise to take place in Israel\u2019s skies, according to a report in Defense News Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nearly 100 aircraft and several hundred crew will take part in the latest two-week drill, which has been held twice so far, in 2013 and 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">As in the past, this year\u2019s event is expected to see hundreds of sorties throughout the nation\u2019s airspace as participants practice air-to-air battles, ground attacks on fixed- and moving targets, and maneuvering among threats from surface-to-air batteries and shoulder-launched missiles, Defense News said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In a first, Indian Air Force to head for multi nation drills to Israel. Will take part in Ex Blue Flag. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2hsHj4XeRV\">https:\/\/t.co\/2hsHj4XeRV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manu Pubby (@manupubby_ET) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manupubby_ET\/status\/844775817838178304\">March 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Officers and other representatives from nearly 40 countries will also attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cPeople are seeing there\u2019s a lot to learn from Israel. In our tiny airspace and in the environment around us, things are so intense. The Russians are here. \u2026 Many of the world\u2019s air forces are passing through here on their way to operations in Syria and elsewhere in the region. So we provide a sort of battle lab in which forces can hone a spectrum of skills needed to combat growing threats,\u201d Hecht said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israeli planes have carried out a number of sorties against weapons convoys in Syria, reportedly raising tensions with Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel to host seven overseas air forces for largest ever drill SUE SURKES France, Germany, India and Italy to join previous participants Greece, Poland and US for massive exercise with IAF Israeli and foreign fighter jets fly in formation through cloudy skies over the Negev desert during the &#8216;Blue Flag&#8217; exercise at Ovda Airfield near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51082"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51104,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51082\/revisions\/51104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}