How the Baaz flew: It was in the 1970s-80s that the Indian Air Force was turning a new page and a lot of major acquisition programmes were initiated during the period to replace the older fleet making the air force practically brand new.
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The Top 10 weapons of India’s Navy: Brahmos ramjet-propelled supersonic Anti-Ship/Land Attack Cruise Missile jointly developed by Russia and India with sea-skimming capability defeats air defence systems and strikes targets at long distances with high accuracy.
Air Marshal (R) M Matheswaran on a third aircraft carrier for India: The Indian military is undergoing what may be its most significant reorganisation since India’s independence, with considerable implications for its future strategic posture.
Sankalan Chattopadhyay on the IAF at 88: The Indian Air Force was established on 8 October in 1932 in Colonial India as an auxiliary of the Royal Air Force in India. However, a handful of Indian pilots had flown with the Royal Air Force (Royal Flying Corps) 15 years earlier.
Vayu Interview with Admiral Karambir Singh, Chief of the Naval Staff: The Indian Navy’sAir Arm is poised for a quantum growth over the next few years.
80th Anniversary of Mikoyan Design Bureau, RAC-MiG: Mikoyan’s aircraft design department was established on 8 December, 1939 as the Pilot Design Department of the Aviation Plant #1 and headed by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich.
Russia’s sole aircraft-carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov being put out of action on 29 October 2018,was indeed bizarre news. But what missed the headlines was an even more dramatic event that preceded it: sinking of the world’s largest floating dry-dock, the PD-50, in the north-west Russian port of Murmansk.
The Indian Navy Aircraft Carrier IAC-2: The aircraft carrier is a moving airfield at sea on which is the core of sea-borne air power, and can be utilised according to demands of the situation. The presence of integral fighter aircraft and other air platforms provide the nation unmatched ability to influence and intervene at a time and place of its political choice.
In aftermath of the humiliating reverses at hands of the Chinese in 1962, which none of us can forget, the Tata Committee had recommended a force level of 64 combat squadrons for the IAF.
Clear Sky 2018 focussed on air interdiction, air-to-ground integration, air mobility operations, aeromedical evacuation, cyber defence and personnel recovery.
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