New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- The exercise operates on a carefully structured progression. "Each participating nation has their own areas that they'd like to do. And we, as the RAF, as the exercise owner, we'll take those and we'll build scenarios to make sure that everybody can get their own objectives satisfied," Hanson explains. Training begins with familiarisation operations, transitions into two weeks of daylight missions, and culminates in night operations during the final week. Mission complexity extends to "enormous 60 or 70 ship missions," requiring detailed pre-mission planning. "It is one mission but it's so complicated and lengthy that it I/2026 107 requires a detailed plan beforehand to be able to execute," Hanson notes.
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