By Commander YP Marathe, NM, Retd Having flown HAL produced helicopters right from 1989 till I retired 2008, I have had first-hand experience of the […]
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By Commander YASHODHAN MARATHE (Retd.) The heart-wrenching sight of the smoke billowing from the crashed Indian Coast Guard (ICG) helicopter at Porbandar on January 5th,
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A young Indian Air Force pilot has been decorated with a Shaurya Chakra, India’s third highest ‘peacetime’ gallantry award, for his safe recovery of a
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By Commander K.P. Sanjeev Kumar (Retd.) via kaypius.com The Indian Coast Guard faced arguably its lowest point in history when the service lost its second
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23 years after its first flight, and nearly a decade into operational service with the Indian Air Force, a homegrown Tejas fighter has crashed for
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Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari, ‘Chau’, couldn’t possibly be taking charge of the Indian Air Force’s operationally supreme Western Air Command (WAC) at a more
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On this day a year ago, amidst a tense air battle over the Rajouri sector in Jammu & Kashmir, the Indian Air Force made a
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Last Saturday’s crash of an Indian Navy MiG-29KUB fighter in Goa was captured by several citizens on the ground, but none had apparently captured the
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Nailing a set of tests that bedeviled and all but killed a parallel aircraft development program was always going to be a huge task. But
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Two pilots were killed today when an Indian Army HAL Cheetah helicopter crashed in Bhutan. The Indian and Bhutanese pilots on board were on a
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