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Israel agreeing in principle to hold joint air exercises involving US-made F-16s and Russian-built Su-30 MKI fighters.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/866109.cms
India not to have military exercises with Israel
IANS SEPTEMBER 28, 2004
NEW DELHI: India has no plans to conduct military exercises with Israel even as it works to strengthen military-to-military contacts with that country, official sources here said.
"There are no plans at all to conduct joint exercises with the Israeli defence forces," said a highly placed source familiar with the thinking in the highest levels of the external affairs ministry.
"We will, however, maintain high level military-to-military contacts with Israel that are mutually beneficial," the source told IANS.
The external affairs ministry was particularly miffed after Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal S. Krishnaswamy, told the Jerusalem Post newspaper during a visit to Israel this month that he had received a "positive" response for a proposal to conduct joint manoeuvres.
After Krishnaswamy's comments were highlighted by a New Delhi-based daily, the IAF clarified last week that the air force chief had not signed any formal agreement or taken any decision on holding joint exercises.
Israel has emerged a major supplier of hi-tech military hardware like pilot-less spy planes and sophisticated sensors and radars that have been deployed along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir to prevent terrorist incursions.
India has also signed a $1.1 billion deal with Israel to acquire three Phalcon airborne warning and control systems.
New Delhi is keen to ensure that it continues to have access to such sophisticated Israeli hardware as well as continue cooperation with Tel Aviv in areas like sharing of intelligence, said officials of the defence and external affairs ministries.
At the same time, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's coalition government is keen to be seen as balancing its strategic ties with Israel with New Delhi's traditional friendly relations with the Arab world.
"We do need cutting edge technologies like the radars and thermal imaging systems that are being used in Kashmir and would like to keep up high-level contacts with the Israelis," said a defence ministry official.
The Left parties, which provide crucial support to the government from outside, have been particularly critical of India's military ties with Israel.
But Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee has ruled out any dilution of the strategic and military ties with Israel.
India this month sent its Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed as a special envoy to meet Palestine President Yasser Arafat. And shortly thereafter, Manmohan Singh met prominent Jewish leaders in New York.
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55901
Mission Mars
IAF team charts way to make all fighters refuellable mid-air
...The squadron’s IL-78Ms were fitted with three Israeli ARP-3 refuelling pods each — one under each wing and one on the tail. The pods can inject fuel into fighters at the rate of 500-1,600 kg per minute, wrapping up the process in about five minutes. Israeli teams still help maintain the fleet at Agra. ...
Special Forces
In January 2003, the Cabinet Committee on Security sanctioned four additional Special Forces battalions to be trained by Israel in "irregular warfare". Nine months later a detachment from India's Special Forces went to Israel for joint familiarisation sessions with their Israeli counterparts (Sayeret Matkal). In mid-2003 Israel agreed to supply Indian Special Forces with 3,400 5.56 mm Tavor TAR-21 assault rifles and 200 7.62 mm Galil sniper rifles, together with night vision and laser-targeting devices in a contract worth US$30 million.
After publicity surrounding selected US Special Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and aware that popular appeal concerning SF operations makes political support for funding more easily obtained than for other, more seemingly mundane initiatives, the Chief of Army Staff, General Nirmal Vij, ordered the Directorate of Military Operations and Army Training Command to produce plans for a similar force. The assistance of Israel and the US will be important to this initiative, although recruiting high-quality manpower is apparently already difficult for existing specialist and special forces, and the army as a whole.
A further and more potent danger to the initiative is the bureaucracy of the Finance Ministry which, no matter the precision and urgency of political directives, can indefinitely delay passage of any measure should this be desired for reasons of in-house politicking. The civil servants of the MoD are more familiar and comfortable with their colleagues in other ministries than with their uniformed associates.