{"id":7714,"date":"2020-04-30T14:55:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T09:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7714"},"modified":"2020-04-30T14:55:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T09:25:46","slug":"exercise-pitch-black-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/exercise-pitch-black-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Pitch Black 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Defence and security<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/affairscloud.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Exercise-Pitch-Black-2020.png\" alt=\"Australia cancels premier multilateral air combat training ...\" \/><\/p>\n<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 Australia has informed India that its premier multilateral air combat training exercise Pitch Black 2020 has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 situation.<\/p>\n<p><b>Key highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Chief informed of his decision to cancel the exercise this year due to the current and anticipated impacts of the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The exercise is also an opportunity to interact with forces from across the globe, a second defense source said. The next edition of Pitch Black is scheduled in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The defense and strategic engagement with Australia has steadily gone up in recent years especially on the bilateral front with naval cooperation at the forefront.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The bilateral naval exercise AUSINDEX early last year saw the participation of the largest Australian contingent ever to India with over 1,000 personnel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA) has been long pending and is expected to be concluded soon as well as a broader maritime cooperation agreement including the Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) to elevate the existing strategic partnership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/4\/28\/9\/7\/37\/exercise_pitch_black.jpg\" alt=\"Australia has informed India that its premier multilateral air ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Defence and security \u00a0\u00a0 Why in news? \u2022 Australia has informed India that its premier multilateral air combat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}