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Jan 2007

Air Force Chiefs of 37 countries to attend Seminar

     New Delhi: Air Force Chiefs of 37 countries including the US, the UK and Russia will attend the International Aerospace Power Seminar to be held from February 4 to 5. The theme of the seminar this year is "Aerospace power in tomorrow's world". During the two day seminar discussions would be held on various areas, including, emerging geopolitical context of aerospace power; transformation of airpower-translating technology into doctrine, strategy, and application; joint operations-integrating aerospace operation and surface forces, cooperative aerospace operations in future. The countries having confirmed their participation are Afghanistan, Australia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhistan, Malaysia, Maldives, Mangolia, Myanmar, Netherland, Nigeria, Oman, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, the UAE, the UK, the US, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. Also present at the seminar will be former chiefs of the Indian Air Force (IAF), Indian Army and the Indian Navy. The Indian Air Force has organised this seminar as a part of its platinum jubilee celebrations this year. After attending the two-day long seminar in New Delhi, the visiting Air Force heads of 37 countries, would proceed to Air Force Station Yelahanka for attending Aero-India 07, the biennial aerospace and defence exposition held at Bangalore.
-Jan 27, 2007