For Exercise Indradanush the IAF has flown their Russian built Flanker jet fighters, along with transport and tanker aircraft, across three continents to train with their RAF counterparts. Designed to reinforce the strategic relationship and enhance the mutual operational understanding between the two air forces, pilots and ground forces from both nations are participating in a series of increasingly complex training scenarios. – © Crown copyright 2013

On 27 July it was reported that Royal Air Force and Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft were dogfighting in a major airpower training exercise in the skies above Britain.