Indian Air Force exercise, incl bombing, dog fights, commando drops

Описание: (1 Mar 2010) SHOTLIST
++DAY SHOTS++
1. Fighter aircraft firing bombs at targets during a simulated exercise by Indian air force
2. Wide of bomb explosion with smoke
3. Monitors showing explosion
4. Black thick plum of smoke rising
5. Fighter jet firing rockets
6. Explosions with smoke rising
7. Army commanders and foreign diplomats watching exercise
8. Wide of skydivers jumping out of plane
9. Wide of parachutes floating in sky
10. Various of sky divers reaching ground after jump
11. Various of aerobatic unit of Indian Air Force performing manoeuvres
12. Various of helicopters performing air combat manoeuvres
13. Various of fighter aircraft performing manoeuvres
14. Fighter aircraft dispensing flares as it rolls in sky
15. Helicopter dispensing flares and firing
16. Various of commandos getting out of helicopter and moving towards target in simulated battlefield mission
17. Target exploding
++NIGHT SHOTS++
18. Wide of flares in sky after fighter aircraft fired bombs
19. Wide of targets exploding
STORYLINE
Indian Air Force has launched a large scale military exercise at the Pokhran ranges in Rajasthan, also the site of India''s nuclear tests.
More than 100 combat, reconnaissance and transport aircraft including SU-30 MKI, Mirage-2000, MIG 27 and MIG 29 took part in the two-hour display by the world''s fourth-largest air force on Sunday
The exercise included bombing of enemy targets, aerial dog fight, simulated battlefield missions and day and night air drop of commandos in the Thar desert.
An unmanned aerial vehicle streamed live video images of the target destruction.
In addition to 70 aircraft which participated in the exercise, 30 aircraft were kept on standby, in both air and on the ground, according to a statement by the Indian Air Force.
Mock radar sites, tanks, marshalling yards, militant camps, infantry fighting vehicles and convoys were among a few of the targets that the pilots destroyed.
The dusk and night phase display was the first ever by the Indian Air Force.
The aerobatic display teams performed manoeuvres in formations and aerial stunts watched by the Indian president Pratibha Patil, Defence Minister A. K. Antony and foreign diplomats.

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