Ratan Tata needs no introduction. The outspoken business tycoon took to social media yesterday to congratulate Prime Minister for Surgical Strike in Balakot. In a note, he said that: We congratulate the PM and the IAF for the successful air strikes on the terrorist training camps which Pakistan has claimed never existed! India is proud […]
In a first for the Indian Air Force,the “OTTERS” squadron of Western Air Command has undertaken Parallel Taxi Track (PTT) Operations with a full women crew in the Dornier 228 aircraft. The pilots, Sqn Ldr Kamaljeet Kaur and her co-pilot Sqn Ldr Rakhi Bhandari carried out successful parallel taxi track landing and take-off operations at […]
Today, on 17 December 2018, Experimental Test Pilots and Test Engineer from IAF’s premier testing establishment ASTE, flew India’s first military flight using blended bio-jet fuel on the An-32 transport aircraft. The project is a combined effort of IAF, DRDO, Directorate General Aeronautical Quality Assurance (DGAQA) and CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum. On 27 July 2018, […]
A brilliantly executed rescue operations by Indian Air Force at Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, 02 September 2018 has surfaced. Watch the video of the rescue done by Indian Air Force: Indian Air Force has released a detailed statement on the same, which we are presenting verbatim: On Sunday the unit got a message to launch helicopter […]
It was 1700 hrs and in the helicopter unit of Indian Air Force based at Jammu, nicknamed “Condors”, Wing Commander Vishal Jain and Squadron Leader Soumya Das were mentally wrapping up the days’ work in the process of “packup” for the weekend. Little did they know that they would soon be playing saviour angels for […]
Indian Air Force is the pride of the nation of India. The Indian Air Force recently saved the life of a young boy. Here is what transpired: Nine-year-old Taufik started suffering acute pain as a result of a very serious case of appendicitis, at night. He lives in Gurez, Kashmir an area where adequate medical care […]
A 45 member contingent of the Indian Air Force left for Israel today to participate in exercise ‘Blue Flag-17’. Blue Flag is a bi-annual multilateral exercise which aims to strengthen military cooperation amongst participating nations. Indian Air Force is participating with the C-130J special operations aircraft along with Garud commandos. The exercise would provide a […]
Sqn Ldr D Pankaj and Flt Lt S Achudev, the pilots of the Su-30 aircraft sustained fatal injuries when the aircraft crashed approximately 60 Km from Tezpur Airbase on 23 May 17. Analysis of the Flight Data Recorder of the aircraft and certain other articles recovered from the crash site revealed that the pilots could […]
A two seater Su-30 MKI aircraft of Indian Air Force, which got airborne from Tezpur Airbase today morning on a routine training mission as part of a two-aircraft formation, lost Radar and Radio contact with controlling station at around 1110h. The Indian government has informed that the last reported position was 60 Km North-West of […]
Organ donation campaign by the Indian Air Force is winning hearts. Organ transplantation is a viable treatment option for a number of otherwise fatal diseases. It gives a second-life to a terminally ill individual. The Armed Forces Medical Services has the infrastructure and expertise to conduct organ transplantation but there has been an acute shortage […]
