Vajpayee refused permission to IAF to cross LoC during Kargil conflict: Anil Tipnis
India | June 28, 2019 22:00 ISTTipnis said Vajpayee wanted to know from General Malik if the ground forces could do without the use of Air Force.
Tipnis said Vajpayee wanted to know from General Malik if the ground forces could do without the use of Air Force.
An Indian Air Force (IAF) Jaguar aircraft suffered a bird hit in Ambala on Thursday morning. Watch the full video of how the pilot manoeuvres safely after taking the hit.
An Indian Air Force (IAF) Jaguar aircraft suffered a bird hit in Ambala on Thursday morning, reported news agency ANI.
The Indian Air Force lost 27 aircraft, including 15 fighter jets and helicopters, in crashes since 2016, Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik said on Wednesday.
Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa has said that Pakistani fighter planes did not enter the Indian airspace after the Balakot strike.
The agency has also booked unidentified officials of the Indian Air Force, the Defence Ministry and Switzerland-based Pilatus Aircraft Limited in the case.
The wreckage of the missing AN-32 was located by a Mi-17 helicopter on June 11, following which a team of 15 mountaineers was dropped near the crash site the next day.
A search operation to retrieve the mortal remains of six of the 13 people who were killed in the AN-32 crash on June 3 were hampered due to inclement weather in the area, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said on Saturday.
A team of 16 mountaineers from the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Indian Army along with five civilian mountaineers are combing the site of crash 16 km north of Lipo, northeast of Tato under West Siang district, at an approximate elevation of 12,000 feet.
The transport plane had taken off from Jorhat on June 3 and then went missing on the radar. Scores of aircraft were involved in the search operations, and the IAF chief Air Chief Marshal B. S. Dhanoa himself went to Jorhat to coordinate the operations.
The wreckage of the AN-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force was spotted on Tuesday in a heavily forested mountainous terrain in Arunachal Pradesh, eight days after it went missing with 13 people on board after taking off from Assam's Jorhat.
Wreckage of the missing AN-32 aircraft found in Arunachal Pradesh
Poor weather conditions had disrupted the aerial search operation for the missing AN-32 aircraft on Saturday.
The IAF had deployed four Mi-17 helicopters, three advanced light helicopters, of which two belonged to the Army, two Sukhoi-30 aircraft, one C-130 transporter aircraft and one Unmanned Aerial Vehicle of the Army.
Tribal villagers had witnessed "thick black smoke" originating from a mountain towards Molo village in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday after an An-32 aircraft of the IAF lost contact with the ground staff on Monday afternoon.
Sandhya was on duty when the flight took off from the base at 12.25 pm for the advanced landing ground at Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh.
Indian Air Force launches Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft and C-130 Special Ops aircraft on a search mission for locating the IAF AN-32 Aircraft that last contacted ground sources at 1 PM
The aircraft last contacted ground sources at 1 pm, after taking off from Jorhat airbase at 12:25 pm.
Mohana Singh had gone through a strenuous training programme that involved flying both air-to-air combat and air-to-ground missions. Her practice sessions also involved firing rockets, guns and dropping high calibre bombs and several air force-level flying exercises.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Wednesday said it signed an agreement with the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday for crew selection and training for the country's prestigious maiden manned mission Gaganyaan by 2021-22.
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