{"id":102560,"date":"2024-08-05T19:17:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T09:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/140-aircraft-australia-pitch-black-24-exercise-ends\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T19:17:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T09:17:44","slug":"4400-personnel-140-aircraft-from-20-countries-australias-epic-pitch-black-24-exercise-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=102560","title":{"rendered":"4400 Personnel &amp; 140 Aircraft From 20 Countries: Australia&#8217;s Epic Pitch Black 24 Exercise Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The massive three-week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforce.gov.au\/news-events\/events\/exercise-pitch-black\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Exercise Pitch Black 24<\/a> has wrapped up in northern Australia (where much of the Australian <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-force\/\">Air Force<\/a> is based<span style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px; padding:0px\">, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/royal-australian-air-force-1st-mq-4c-triton-uav-ground-support-systems-delivered\/\" >the new Australian MQ-4C Triton UAVs<\/a>). The military exercise involved some 4,400 personnel and 140 aircraft from 20 nations and has grown to the largest yet since it was founded in 1981. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\" >US Air Force<\/a> participated<\/span> with F-22s, F-35s, and other aircraft.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia hosted its largest-ever international air force exercise, which included the US Air Force, European air forces, and Asia-Pacific air forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1258,396,412,8953,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-military","category-royal-australian-air-force","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102561,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102560\/revisions\/102561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}