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French fighter pilots trained alongside the Israeli Air Force this week as part of a joint exercise focusing on air-to-air combat, the military said in an exercise that allowed the pilots to practice coordinating with foreign forces — and their English.
The drill was held on Monday and Tuesday in the skies over southern Israel. The exercise featured three-on-three dogfights, with one group of pilots — the “red team” — tasked with carrying out an airstrike while the second group — the “blue team” — tried to stop them, one of the participating Israeli pilots told The Times of Israel.
Three French Dassault Rafale fighter jets took part in the exercise, flying into southern Israel from an aircraft carrier off the coast. The Israeli pilots, from the 107th Air Squadron, flew F-16I jets out of the Ovda air base north of Eilat.
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