Israeli and Jordanian pilots are reported to have trained together at a US-hosted air force exercise this past summer, an American official told Reuters on Tuesday.<br />Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon also vaguely confirmed the rare acknowledgment of military cooperation between Israel and it's Arab neighbor in a speech on Tuesday saying that Israeli pilots trained with unspecified Arab pilots in July's "Red Flag" exercise.<br />"There were Arab pilots there too, and pilots from the various branches of the United States military and other countries,"Ya'alon said.<br />Just a few weeks after Israel gave Jordan 16 Cobra helicopters to enhance its border security, Foxtrot Alpha, an American website dedicated to military aviation news, reported that Israeli air force KC-707 fuel tankers escorted Jordanian Air Force F-16s to participate in the military exercises in the West of the United States.
