<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">For the first time, the Indian Air Force will be participating in Exercise Pitch Black 2018 (PB-18), a three-week multinational drill scheduled from next Tuesday in Australia.</span></div>''<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span></div>''<div>In an official statement, the air force today said, the IAF contingent will consists of 145 air-warriors including a Garud commando team, four Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter planes and a C-130 and a C-17 transport aircraft in the exercise which will end on 18 of the next month.  </div>''<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span></div>''<div>Ex Pitch Black is a biennial large force employment warfare exercise hosted by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The contingent will assemble at Air Force Station, Kalaikunda in West Bengal and leave for the exercise tomorrow via Indonesia, the statement said.</div>