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Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Monday said the government is taking a series of steps to develop the Indian Air Force (IAF) into a "dominant aerospace power." Addressing the first meeting of the Consultative Committee of Members of Parliament attached to his Ministry, Mr. Antony said the...

BY:Express Buzz. An ultra modern High Performance Human Centrifuge (HPHC) was inaugurated by the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal FH Major, at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine (IAM) recently. “With this new acquisition, the IAM is now at par with world standards as it now has one...

BY : IANS An integrated command and control system commissioned here Wednesday has enabled the real time networking of all military and civil radars in south India to qualitatively enhance the surveillance capabilities of the Indian Air Force (IAF) in a broad swathe from the Bay of Bengal to...

by : The financial express Denying strongly the reports of armed forces defying government over the pay commission issues, the chief of Indian Air Force (IAF) has said that in a decade’s time, the face of the force would be completely changed with its modernisation programme going full steam...

The IAF is likely to add MI-17 V5 medium lift helicopters in its fleet as negotiations to procure them from Russia are in final stages, a senior Indian air Force official said. "Our negotiations are in the final stages with Russia. In the next 3 months, we will sign a contract with them...

BY : PTI India will soon have an advanced air war game in a multi-national setting on the lines of the US' Red Flag exercise in which the Indian Air Force (IAF) participated this August for the first time. "Yes, we are working towards having a multi-national air force gaming, which will...

BY : HT The Indian Air Force (IAF) has taken a leaf out of the United States Air Force’s book and ‘changed colours’. Some four years after the army aped the US and allowed its generals to wear stars on their collar tabs, it is now the turn of the IAF’s combat pilots to don the...

Surprising sophistication of Indian fighter aircraft and skill of Indian pilots" stunned the US Air Force. A June 2 article in the magazine Inside the Air Force reported –“The exercise, in which US F-15Cs were said to have been defeated more than 90 per cent of the time in direct combat...

Two teams from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) are leaving for Russia in a bid to fast track the custom made Russian engine AL-55I (‘I’ for Indian) that will power the indigenous, but delayed Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT). While a team will be tasked with the acceptance of three...

BY : RIA Novosti Russia's state arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, said on Monday it had contracted a number of Russian companies to provide India's A-50 AEW aircraft with after sale services. "Rosoboronexport has signed contracts with the Beriev Aircraft Company, the Perm Motors Group and...

Source : Times of India Impressed with the combat skills of IAF top-gun pilots flying Sukhoi-30MKI fighters, IL-78 mid-air refuellers and IL-76 heavy-lift aircraft, the US would like IAF to take part in the "Red Flag" wargames on a regular basis. "IAF is a world-class air force, with...

BY : ANI The Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday that in the face of rapid technological advancements and induction of new generation equipment in Indian Air Force, indigenisation and modernisation of maintenance infrastructure has assumed a very significant role. IAF is on look out for...

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China has banned its air force pilots from drinking alcohol at lunchtime to help the service's image. Air force officers and other personnel could be dismissed, demoted or handed demerits for drinking alcohol at lunchtime under new rules that took effect this week, the Beijing News newspaper...

Within the next four months, a first batch of eight Su-30MKI multi-role fighters will be positioned at the Tezpur Airp Base in the Indian state of Assam, near the border with China, an Indian Navy source has revealed. This is almost six months ahead of the timeline reported some time ago in the...