Exercise Pitch Black has pulled together air forces from 20 nations for practice missions over northern Australia as concern rises about collaboration between China and Russia.
Already a subscriber?Air force war games off northern Australia involving 20 nations from Asia, Europe and the US are intended to send a message of deterrence amid deepening military co-operation between China and Russia, Defence Minister Richard Marles says.
A Royal Australian Air Force FA-18F Super Hornet aircraft departs RAAF Base Darwin for a night flying mission as part of Exercise Pitch Black 2024.Mr Marles said the greater level of co-operation between China and Russia was a concern. , that was a moment where that relationship became very front and centre, and where a conflict in Eastern Europe suddenly became highly relevant to us in the Indo-Pacific,” Mr Marles said.RAAF’s Exercise Pitch Black has involved more than 140 fighter jets and other aircraft conducting 1700 sorties over recent weeks in the Northern Territory, with air forces from the US, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Japan and the Philippines among them, simulating combat missions and dogfights.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute senior analyst Malcolm Davis said the joint exercises involving Chinese and Russian bombers near Alaska were significant.
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