India has long sought to maintain an air power advantage over its potential adversaries as a key aspect of its conventional deterrence posture. To get a view of how Indian air power continues to evolve in relation to its...
Group Captain Varun Singh, Shaurya Chakra
No. 45 Squadron (Flying Bullets) Indian Air Force
Directing Staff (Air), Defence Services Staff College, Wellington
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Fly fly, o' fighter
You fly on eternal patrol
On the wing, the angels guide
You fly forever now
Once on a Port,...
Earlier today, a missile airframe integrated with a solid fuel ducted ramjet (SFDR) propulsion system was tested by India's Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO). Unlike an earlier test in May 2018, when only the nozzle-less booster of the...
The era of the swing wing comes came to a close today, December 27, 2019, when the last of the Indian Air Force's (IAF's) MiG 27s took to the sky for one last time. Tears rolled down the battle...
The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Tejas Mk1 received Final Operational Clearance (FOC) earlier this year during Aero India 2019. Though, this was a watershed moment for the Tejas program, it was however the first part of the FOC process,...
September 2019 will go down as a seminal month in the history of Indian naval aviation, marked as it was by multiple milestones. On September 19, prototype NP-1 of the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft- Navy Mk1 (NLCA MK1) design...
On 27 Jun 2020, it was reported by several news channels that a Chinese PLAAF Il-78 tanker aircraft had landed at Skardu. This was followed by unsubstantiated reports of up to 40 Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)...
India celebrates 26 January every year as its Republic Day, since it is the date on which the Constitution of independent India came into effect, in 1950. Ever since, military parades have been the highlight of the day's celebrations, across...
In an unprecedented measure undertaken by the Indian Defence Services, all graduating Officer Cadets of the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla, have been taken to their respective Pre-Commission academies i.e. the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun, the Air Force...
In a manner similar to a test in March 2017, the Defence Research and Development Organization's (DRDO's) AAD endo-atmospheric ballistic missile defence (BMD) interceptor successfully destroyed a test target at an altitude of 15 km yesterday morning at 0945 hours...
