New Delhi, April 6

The Indian Air Force will conduct a 10-day exercise to practise simultaneous ‘wartime drills’ along the northern and western frontiers, amply indicating the readiness for a collusive two-front war with Pakistan and China. This exercise will hone the war-fighting skills in a real time scenario.Named ‘Gaganshakti’, the exercise will be conducted by the IAF from April 8-22. “The aim is real time coordination, deployment and employment of air power in a short and intense battle scenario,” the IAF said on Friday. “The focus will be on weapons delivery,” said a source.The IAF will exercise the entire machinery to validate its concept of operations and war-waging capability. With each successive exercise, the lessons learnt in the previous exercises and doctrinal precepts are put to test, for developing new concepts. This year, the IAF has planned tactics that will be tested in a real time scenario. — TNS