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IAF pilots given advanced training in BVR tactics: Air Marshal
In the run-up to India becoming the first country in South Asia to acquire Air-borne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, IAF pilots are being given advanced training in Beyond Visual Range (BVR) tactics, according to Air Marshal A K Singh.
"The pilots are being put through special courses to train them on tactics to reduce response time between detection of targets and dealing with them," Singh, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Air Command, said today.
Singh's comments come as IAF pilots for the first time would be exposed to fighting in AWACS environment during the just-started Indo-US joint fighter exercises Cope India '06.
He said the lessons learned at Kalaikunda would come useful with the IAF acquiring its own AWACS by 2007.
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