{"id":13053,"date":"2020-01-18T15:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T10:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13053"},"modified":"2020-01-18T15:52:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T10:22:03","slug":"indian-army-conducts-biggest-airborne-exercise-winged-raider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-army-conducts-biggest-airborne-exercise-winged-raider\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Army conducts biggest airborne exercise \u2018Winged Raider\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Indian Army has conducted its biggest airborne exercise called the \u2018Winged Raider\u2019 comprising of more than 500 special forces troops in the North-Eastern theatre.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Winged Raider exercise:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The exercise aims to demonstrate the operational preparedness of the paratroopers and air warriors to undertake airborne missions.<\/li><li>It involved a large number of the Special Forces troops and all kind of air transport platforms of the Air Force.<\/li><li>The newly inducted aerial platforms and equipment were also validated during the exercise with clockwise precision and seamless integration between the Army and the Air Force.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Significance of the exercise:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The exercise indicated the shift in the army\u2019s focus towards the frontier with China.<\/li><li>In October 2019,the Indian army had also carried out Exercise <strong>\u2018Him Vijay\u2019<\/strong> in Arunachal Pradesh to test its mobility, communication and coordination of such a huge body of fast-moving troops in difficult terrain.<\/li><li>The integrated battle groups(IBGs) had participated for the first time in an exercise.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Indian Army has conducted its biggest airborne exercise called the \u2018Winged Raider\u2019 comprising of more than 500 special forces troops in the North-Eastern theatre.&nbsp; Facts: About Winged Raider exercise: The exercise aims to demonstrate the operational preparedness of the paratroopers and air warriors to undertake airborne missions. It involved a large number of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-army-conducts-biggest-airborne-exercise-winged-raider\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian Army conducts biggest airborne exercise \u2018Winged Raider\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6849],"class_list":["post-13053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-winged-raider-exercise","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700775681,"cached_date":1704585760},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}