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editI don't know if it's necessarily desirable to have full orders of battle for every exercise. My reason for including references for the UK contributions is that there's a current internet meme that says Pakistani F-16s met RAF Typhoons at AE08. As the article makes clear, they didn't - and the only time that the UK and Pakistan coincided at AE, in 2007, the UK sent the Tornado GR4. I feel that Wikipedia does have a bit of a duty to counter this kind of febrile nonsense with cool, referenced, facts - hence my edit. 82.31.18.156 (talk) 10:39, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
- But if you don't think full details of units/aircraft attending each exercise should be included, then you've included them just to satisfy some kind of national ego that RAF Typhoons weren't beaten, right? By the way, one of the sources of that "internet meme" never claimed that Pakistani F-16s met RAF Typhoons at an exercise. What it does say is that the Turks and Paks have been exchanging F-16 and T-37 pilots for "a couple of decades", Pak pilots are seconded to the Turkish Air Force for 2 years on average and Pakistani pilots have been flying Turkish F-16C/D Block 30, Block 40 and Block 50 models with different units/from different airbases. It also says that a Pakistani pilot on secondment to the Turkish Air Force has flown in "one national and two international" Anatolian Eagle exercises. Perhaps you should note that those editing Wikipedia have a bit of a duty to get as close to the facts as possible by scouting for reliable sources, and if you dig deeper in this case you will find the original source is a Pakistani forum member who knows a Pakistani F-16 pilot, recorded an "interview" with that pilot on his return from secondment in Turkey and posted that interview on a Pakistani forum. And because Wikipedia considers forums as unreliable sources, this stuff has no place here.--Hj108 (talk) 15:48, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
China?
editThere's been quite a bit of discussion on Chinese participation in "AE10" between 20 Sept and 4 Oct 2010 - eg http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=37369 - but the official website seems vague on this, albeit it seems a bit out of date. Was this an official AE, or just China using the same facilities? 82.31.18.156 (talk) 10:47, 11 June 2011 (UTC)