{"id":4193,"date":"2019-11-15T06:20:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2019-11-15T06:20:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:20:42","slug":"israel-concludes-international-aerial-military-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4193","title":{"rendered":"Israel concludes international aerial military exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jerusalem,<\/strong>\u00a0Israel has concluded a 12-day-long international military aerial exercise, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise, dubbed &#8220;Blue Flag,&#8221; was conducted between November 3-14.<\/p>\n<div id=\"playstream_out\" class=\"playstream_out\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div id=\"ad_container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was the first international &#8220;Fifth Generation&#8221; exercise held in Israel involving F-35 warplanes, according to a statement issued by the Israeli military on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise simulated fighting between an Israeli F-35 squadron, painted in blue, and an &#8220;enemy&#8221; F-35 squadron, painted in red.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;enemy&#8221; forces operated advanced surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles to simulate the capabilities of the S-300 aerial defence system that Russia has delivered to the army in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Several air forces participated in the exercise, including forces from Germany, Italy, Greece, and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, forces from Japan, Britain, Croatia, the Netherlands, Spain, and France participated as observers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Almost 70 fighter jets of six different kinds participated in the exercise, most of the airplanes from foreign air forces, as well as an IAF (Israel Air Force) control aircraft,&#8221; a military spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise also included tankers, cargo planes, two different types of helicopters, drones, and an Italian control aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem,\u00a0Israel has concluded a 12-day-long international military aerial exercise, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced. The exercise, dubbed &#8220;Blue Flag,&#8221; was conducted between November 3-14. It was the first international &#8220;Fifth Generation&#8221; exercise held in Israel involving F-35 warplanes, according to a statement issued by the Israeli military on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4195,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/4195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}