Indian Air Force (IAF) will demonstrate its precision targeting capabilities at Exercise Vayu Shakti to be held in Pokhran, Rajasthan, on the 27th of this month. The full dress rehearsal of Exercise Vayu Shakti will be held on 24th. Briefing the media at the curtain-raiser event in New Delhi today, Vice Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor informed that over 120 defence assets will be deployed during the exercise. . Underlining that Rafale was hero during Operation Sindoor, Air Marshal Kapoor said that Indian Air Force is looking forward to inducting more MRFA-Multi Role Fighter Aircraft.
A total of 77 fighter aircraft, 43 helicopters, and 8 transport aircraft will participate in Exercise Vayu Shakti. The exercise will feature fighter aircrafts including Rafale, Sukhoi, Mirage 2000, Mig-29, Jaguar and LCA Tejas. Vayushakti-26 will also highlight the success of Operation Sindoor, reaffirming IAF’s primacy in airspace dominance, long-range precision targeting, multi-domain operations. It will demonstrate the integrated and joint operations with the Indian Army.
Air Marshal Kapoor highlighted that the message from Operation Sindoor was clear, that terrorism will not be tolerated, and every act of terror carried out on country’s soil will be responded to appropriately.
The exercise will also showcase glimpses of how Air Force plays a crucial role in humanitarian assistance and disaster management by providing rapid airlift, rescue and evacuation from conflict zones within the country as well as abroad. Advanced weapon systems such as Short Range Loitering Munitions, Akash, SpyDer and Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems, carrying out day, dusk and night missions will be featured in the exercise. .
