indian air force

The tradition of a salute has huge importance in the army. But do you know how the tradition begun or what a salute means? When a soldier salutes his superiors, his right hand goes up on his forehead with his palm showing. What this means is that he has no weapon hidden up anywhere and that his...

India's plans to develop andaman as Major Military Base To counter the growing Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean, the Indian government has planned to turn the Andaman and Nicobar islands into a formidable military cantonment replete with Indian air force and navy bases. As per a...

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...

Has the Indian Air Force (IAF) competition to buy 126 fighter aircraft had its first casualty? According to reports in an Indian newspaper, Financial Express, the Swedish fighter, which has had a string of international successes, including a recent one to supply fighters to the Thailand air...

BY : DNA The defence ministry will establish a huge Air Force base close to the international border in Rajasthan, moving aggressively to secure the country’s western frontiers. The 300-km range supersonic cruise missile BrahMos will be stored at this base, defence ministry sources said...

BY : Express Buzz India has deployed naval ships and put fighters on standby across the country as it waits for definitive Pakistani action to bring the terror brains to book. Top sources told to this website's newspaper that the Indian Air Force had fully armed its strike fighters as well...

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...

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to celebrate its 76th anniversary on 8 October 2008. The occasion will be celebrated with an air display conducted by 52 aircraft at an Air Force Day parade-cum- investiture ceremony at Air Force Station, Hindon. The air display will see participation by NCC...

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...

The Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) being jointly developed by India and Russia will look substantially different for the two countries. While the Russian version will be a single-pilot fighter, the Indian variant will have a twin-seat configuration based on its operational doctrine...

Having pitted their skills against each other in the recently concluded multi-national air exercise "Red Flag" in the US, the IAF and USAF helicopter and transport planes will take part in a joint exercise in Agra early next year. The Red Flag exercise saw the fighter pilots of IAF, USAF French...

http://broadband.indiatimes.com/showvideo/3499750.cms If the above mentioned news of Times now is to be believed then our boys outperformed the other air forces which participated at the Red Flag exercise. IAF had achieved a similar feat few years back against the US air force at the air...

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...

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...

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...

Having used the piston HPT-32 aircraft made by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) with relative success since 1984, the Air Force is looking for a new machine that will serve as its ab initio trainer. With this in mind the Air Force has finalised the qualitative requirements for the...

NEW DELHI - India has built the British Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) at facilities of state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) at rates nearly 20 percent less than those built by BAE Systems, said a senior Indian Defence Ministry official. The first HAL-built Hawk is ready for delivery...