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- Japan will deploy three F-2 fighter jets to India next month, its first such deployment.
- The jets will join exercise Veer Guardian 26 with the Indian Air Force, September 9-21, in Rajasthan.
- About 110 personnel from Japan’s Eighth Air Wing at Tsuiki Airbase will accompany the aircraft.
- Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi met Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and pledged deeper defence cooperation through bilateral exercises.
