Joint Cyprus - Israel exercise succesfully completed
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Τhe joint military exercise under the name "ONISILOS - GIDEON 2/2018" was successfully completed by the Armed Forces of the Republic of Cyprus and Israel, in the framework of the implementation of the annual military cooperation program for joint exercises between the two countries.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Defense of Cyprus, the exercise took place within the Nicosia Flight Information Region (FIR) and a large part of the land area of the Republic of Cyprus with the participation of personnel and means of the National Guard, as well as aircraft of various types of the Israeli Air Force.
The purpose of the exercise was to train staff on tactics and ways to deploy aviation assers, to increase combat capabilities and to gain experience from working with each other's Air Force, the announcement concluded.
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