Indian Air Force Vice Chief Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh addresses the Air and Missile Defence India 2024 Seminar, at Air Force Auditorium, in New Delhi on Friday. | Photo Credit: ANI Aatmanirbharta (self-reliance) is what we are riding on, but this self-reliance cannot be at the cost of the nation’s defence, Vice Chief of … Read more
An Apache helicopter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) made an emergency landing in Ladakh and sustained damage due to undulating terrain and high altitude, the IAF said on April 4. The incident took place on April 3 and both the pilots on board are safe, it said. The IAF has ordered a Court of … Read more
IAF’s Surya Kiran flying past the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Friday during a rehearsal. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji World Cup final to begin with IAF air show watched by VIPs Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles will be leading a host of celebrities who will be among … Read more
The Supreme Court recounted how the Air veteran had received the “biggest jolt” of his life when he was informed in 2014 about his HIV infection. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Supreme Court has held the Indian Air Force and the Army liable to pay ₹ 1.54 crore in compensation to an … Read more
MiG-29 fighter planes. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Indian Air Force (IAF) deployed five MiG-29 combat jets, six transport aircraft and a group of its special forces personnel at a 21-day multilateral war game in Egypt that began on August 27. The biennial Tri-Services exercise, Bright-Star, is taking place at Cairo (West) Air Base … Read more
A Kiran trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in an open field at a village in the district on June 1. However, two pilots on board the aircraft ejected safely before the crash. The training aircraft, which took off from the air force station in Bengaluru crashed this morning at Bhogapura village. … Read more
Noting that the race to weaponise space has already started and the day is not far when the next war would spread across all domains of land, sea, air, cyber and space, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal V.R. Chaudhari said on Monday that there is a need to develop both offensive and defensive … Read more
The wreckage Su-30MKI and Mirage 2000 fighter planes which crashed during an exercise, at Pagadgarh in Morena district on January 28, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Two Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jets, a Sukhoi-30MKI and a Mirage-2000, have crashed near Morena in Madhya Pradesh during an exercise on January 28. Further details are awaited, … Read more
Chief of Bangladesh Air Force Air Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan at the Combined Graduation Parade of Flight Cadets of various branches of the IAF. | Photo Credit: Twitter: Indian Air Force/@IAF_MCC India and Bangladesh have a pivotal role to play in ensuring the security of the region, Chief of Bangladesh Air Force Air Marshal Shaikh … Read more
Indian Air Force women officers. File | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy The Supreme Court, in a significant order on Wednesday, ordered the government to grant pension to women officers who fought for 12 years to get reinstatement and permanent commission in the Indian Air Force (IAF). A Bench led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. … Read more