Articles tagged with "Indian Air Force"

172 Flight Cadets Graduate from the Air Force Academy

Yesterday, 172 Flight Cadets including 38 women Flight Cadets passed out from the Air Force Academy, Dundigal, Hyderabad, India to join the Indian Air Force as commissioned officers. This Combined Graduation Parade was presided over by the Raksha Rajya Mantri Shri MM Pallam Raju. Six officers from Indian Navy and one officer from Indian Coast [...]

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IAF displays fire power at Vayu Shakti-2010

In a breathtaking display of rapid air power dominance in a representative battlefield area, Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft blasted away targets by day, dusk and night in a fire power demonstration exercise, Vayu Shakti-2010, at Pokharan (Pokhran) today. In its day-night show of strength for the first time ever, the IAF displayed its full [...]

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IAF to demonstrate fire power at Pokharan on February 28

A mammoth fire power demonstration (FPD), code named Vayu Shakti-2010, showcasing the operational capabilities of the Indian Air Force (IAF) by day, dusk and night will be held at the sprawling Chandan Air-to-Ground Range, Pokharan on February 28, 2010. This event will be the first ever display of IAF’s precision strike capability by night.
Vayu [...]

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Pratibha Patil makes history by flying in a Sukhoi-30 fighter jet

Indian President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday successfully flew in a Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF). With this Ms Patil became the world’s first woman president to fly in a supersonic fighter plane. Three months earlier the 74-year-old president had expressed her interest to fly in a fighter jet.

The [...]

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Indian Air Force MiG-21 crashes in Assam

On Thursday, a MiG-21 fighter fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Chabua in Assam. The pilot, identified as Flying Officer Hemanth Dave, however, managed to bail out from the cockpit in time to safety.
The aircraft got airborne from Chabua airbase, near Dibrugarh, around 1400 hrs, but went down immediately [...]

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Indian Air Force Plane missing with 12 onboard

An Indian Air Force transport aircraft with 12 persons onboard went missing after taking off from Mechuka in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday. The plane was feared to have crashed and search operation is on in search of wreckage or bodies.
The Russia-made AN 32 aircraft, on a routine air maintenance [...]

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