The Mark-1A will be more sophisticated and capable than the Tejas Mark-1.
'My adrenalin kicked in and the happiness returned! It was time to go in for the kill again.' IAF Veterans Group Captain Dilip Kumar Dass tells Air Commodore Nitin Sathe about how the IAF decimated tanks in the famous Battle of Longewala.
They have been deployed to foil suspicious activities at the border in Punjab.
The percentage of women in the Army and the Indian Air Force is 0.56 and 1.08 respectively.
NSA Doval, defence top brass brief Union ministers on the deal to help them counter Opposition charges.
The pilot made all efforts to avert human casualties and crash-landed the plane on the outskirts of a village, Prakash said.
'The enemy knows he cannot defeat us in a conventional conflict. So today we showcase our ability to punish, our ability to insert and extricate our troops from hostile territories.'
'Due to the effective preparation and coordinated efforts by all the security agencies a group of terrorists were detected by the aerial surveillance platforms as soon as they entered the Air Force Station at Pathankot.'
The IAF said the details are held by it in fiduciary
'There is uncertainty regarding job opportunities for our children after they serve for just four years under the Agnipath scheme.'
Lt Gen Bakshi announced 'full support' to the new chief and made it clear that he won't resign.
The missile hit a sinking ship with deadly accuracy and the test-firing produced desired results.
With the IAF having rejected variants of 4 of the contending aircraft -- the Super Hornet, F-16, Gripen C/D and MiG-35 -- in flight trials carried out between 2009-2011 in the MMRCA tender, are the current contenders improved enough to pass flight trials conducted to the same standards?
The IAF deployed five helicopters to evacuate casualties of the naxal attack on a Congress party function in Sukma district in Chhattisgarh and ferried 11 critically-injured persons to Raipur for treatment.
Sukanya Verma lists the girls to have rocked the military and khaki look in recent times.
The Indian Army 'forged thunderstorms' at 11,500 feet near Zoji La to stay battle-ready as the harsh winter sets in in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
A heavy-duty drilling machine flown in by the Indian Air Force (IAF) from Delhi began boring through the rubble of a collapsed tunnel on the Char Dham route in Uttarakhand Thursday, in a fresh attempt to create an escape passage for 40 workers trapped inside for four days.
A Pakistan TV channel mocked the captivity of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman in Pakistan.
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The consignments were sent in a C-17 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force.
Sukhoi Su-30MKI is a twin-jet multi-role air superiority aircraft developed by Russia's Sukhoi and built under licence by India's Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.
The IAF has planned several activities at the air base to commemorate the 20 years of the war and the symbolic recreation of the Tiger Hill attack was one of them.
The fresh batch of evacuees arrived in Bengaluru, a day after 365 people returned from the African country to Delhi.
In a candid admission, the Indian Air Force on Thursday said that given its depleting strength, it does not have the adequate numbers to "fully execute" an air campaign in case of a two-front war involving Pakistan and China simultaneously.
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