Exercise Pitch Black 2026: Why India’s Rafale Deployment to Australia Matters
1. A Debut Worth Watching Exercise Pitch Black 2026 is Australia’s premier multinational air combat exercise, bringing together 19 air forces, more than 100 aircraft and around 2,500 personnel. For the first time, the Indian Air Force has deployed Rafale fighters to the exercise, marking an important milestone in India’s growing role in the Indo-Pacific. Somewhere…