Staged India-US Fighter Exercise

You may have read in a recent magazine article how the US Air Force had their "clocks cleaned" by Indian figher pilots. According to Strategypage, this isn't the whole story:

What isn’t usually included in these battle descriptions is the fact that the ground rules deliberately prevented the American pilots from winning every engagement. These days, American pilots use close in dog fighting (with heat seeking Sidewinder missiles) as a fall back tactic. The main air-to-air weapon of the U.S. Air Force is now the long range (over 50 kilometers) AMRAAM missile, and superior radar equipment....
So when American fighter pilots go train with foreign air forces, they have to take their BVR tactics off the table, since under those conditions, the “enemy” force would not have much of a chance.

This has been going on for a while and I'm not surprised the Old Media fell for this, since they always look for reasons to discredit our military.

Winds of Change has a longer analysis of the Exercise Cope India 2005.