Australia’s Pitch Black exercise wrapped up recently after three weeks that brought together 21 nations, 2,500 personnel and about 100 aircraft.
The massive Rim of the Pacific maritime exercise will feature about 40 surface ships, 140 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel from a record 31 nations.
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The U.S. and the Philippines have launched annual land force drills that involve 7,000 soldiers, including troops from Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
The program, Shield of the Americas, is aimed at the coordination of the military, intelligence, and law enforcement of the partnering countries and focuses on the drug trafficking and cross-border crime syndicates of the Western Hemisphere.
The current iteration of Sentry Aloha, a large-scale exercise that has been held for more than 20 years, involves 41 aircraft from seven states.