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October 22, 2025, 09:56 PM - 4 min read
India has surpassed China to become the world’s third most powerful air force, showcasing operational readiness, technological edge, and strategic self-reliance.
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October 22, 2025, 09:30 PM - 2 min read
Guwahati will host the 93rd Air Force Day on November 9, featuring Surya Kiran aerobatics and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in attendance, marking a historic first.
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October 21, 2025, 08:45 PM - 3 min read
The S-400 air defence system of the Indian Air Force brought down five to six Pakistani fighter aircraft and one spy plane at a distance of over 300 Km deep inside Pakistan during the four-day conflict and has been termed as a game-changer by the Indian Air Force.
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October 21, 2025, 01:00 PM - 2 min read
The Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti was at the Siachen Glacier, celebrating the festival with troops guarding our borders in this sector.
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October 17, 2025, 07:50 PM - 2 min read
At the conclave, the commanders discussed key operational, maintenance, and logistics challenges and exchanged innovative solutions aimed at improving mission readiness and fleet availability.
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October 9, 2025, 02:34 PM - 2 min read
Each dish was named after a city or site destroyed by the Indian Armed Forces during Operation Sindoor—the May 7 offensive that targeted nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in response to the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir.
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October 8, 2025, 01:38 PM - 4 min read
"As we celebrate our triumphs and success, we must remain prepared for the future. Our planning must be innovative, practical and adaptive. Our training must be based on the principle of 'train like we fight'. Hence, it should continue to be honest, rigorous and relevant to the emerging challenges," he said.
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October 3, 2025, 07:38 PM - 3 min read
In a career spanning nearly four decades, Air Marshal Bains, an alumnus of the National War College, South Africa, and National Defence College, Israel, has held various key field and staff appointments.
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October 3, 2025, 02:07 PM - 3 min read
"We have signs of one C-130 class of aircraft...and at least 4 to 5 fighter aircraft, most likely F-16, because that place happened to be F-16 with whatever was under maintenance at that time,” he said while addressing the media in national capital.
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September 30, 2025, 06:37 PM - 3 min read
"We have just signed the contract for an additional 97 LCAs. We are looking at LCA Mark 2 in the coming years. We are also investing in AMCA. Those are the products to move forward with. But it will take time. So in the immediate future, we need to fill that gap. So that effort is on," he said.
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September 30, 2025, 01:43 PM - 3 min read
“A common digital backbone that will respect the unique requirements of each service, provides shared visibility of critical stocks... Work on this has already begun... We must resolve to move towards jointness together. Only when our three services come together and grow together will we be able to successfully respond to challenges.”
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September 27, 2025, 04:21 PM - 6 min read
The inordinate delays in the acquisition of modern weapons can be very frustrating for the leadership of the armed forces. The IAF top brass has repeatedly flagged excruciating delays in the delivery of the indigenous ‘Tejas’ fighter aircraft. This is particularly significant in the light of China’s rapid pace of air force modernisation. It is a matter of concern that the first batch of 40 ‘Tejas’ Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), ordered in 2009–2010, is yet to be fully delivered by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
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