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Retired U.S. Air Force Major General Michael Snodgrass, then a colonel commanding the 3rd Wing at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, which had sent jets to take part in the exercise, said that the Bisons and the Su-30MKIs proved to be the most formidable opponents. “The outcome of the exercise boils down to [the fact that] they ran tactics that were more advanced than we expected... They could come up with a game plan, but if it wasn't working they would call an audible and change [tactics in flight],” he explained in a 2004 interview with Aviation Week & Space Technology.
Still, the exercise’s results prompted an uproar in Washington. The United States returned for the 2005 iteration of the drill with improved tactics and procedures, but the outcome still featured notable Indian successes. It reportedly became an argument in some defense circles for restarting production of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter and helped spur the fielding of the Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) and AN/APG-63(V)3 AESA radar. It helped inform later upgrades, some of which are still in the pipeline, such as infrared search and track (IRST) pods, too.
The U.S. Air Force returned to India again for the exercises in 2006 and 2009. The latter of these drills, however, was entirely airlift focused, involving only American C-130s and C-17s. It’s not immediately apparent why the exercises came to an end
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