‘Pak Once Disproved Indian Kill Claims By Flaunting All Its Mirages, Why Not Now With F-16s?’
JAGAN PILLARISETTI is an air war historian, author of two seminal books on India’s aerial conflicts in 1965 and 1971, and one of the country’s […]
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ANALYSIS: There’s A Revolution Coming In The Indian Air Force’s Missile Arsenal
By MIHIR SHAH A new generation of air-to-air missiles is set to transform the Indian Air Force’s fighter fleet. It has been an exciting two
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COLUMN: Amidst Fog Of War Over Feb 26-27, 5 Big Gains For The IAF
By YUSUF UNJHAWALA The fog of war that persists over several aspects of the February 26 and 27 will not likely lift soon. And while
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‘Visual. And Locked’: Abhinandan’s Last Radio Call Before He Fired F-16 ‘Kill Shot’
Visual. And locked. That was the final radio call from IAF pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman’s MiG-21 Bison before he pushed a button on his
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Modi Says ‘Outcome’ Different If Abhinandan Was In A Rafale. Is This True? We Find Out.
India’s 2016 deal for 36 Rafale jets has been a hot political football in the run-up to the country’s 2019 national election, an unsparing campaign
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Century Of Service Between Them, IAF Says Its MiG-21 Just Scored World’s 1st F-16 Kill
In a Cold War wet dream that has at once stunned and captured the imagination of international security watchers across the world, the Indian Air
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Never A More Urgent Time To Replace The IAF’s MiG-21s With India’s Tejas
90 minutes after Indian Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman punched out of his MiG-21 Bison fighter near the Line of Control, to be
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After ‘Peacetime’ Air Strikes, 5 Homegrown Weapons Programs Deserve Govt Priority
At 3.30am on Tuesday, Indian Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jets conducted India’s first ever peacetime air strikes in Pakistan, destroying a Jaish-e-Muhammad training facility
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SAAW SOON: HAL’s Souped-Up Hawk Trainer All Set To Fire Indian Anti-Airfield Weapon
In April over the Bay of Bengal, a stubby orange box-shaped weapon will separate from an aircraft flying at 20,000 feet, flip open a pair
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NEWSBREAK: Turbulence Ends, India Set To Acquire U.S. ISTAR Jet, 4 More With Indian Sensors
After India’s quest to acquire two Raytheon ISTAR advanced airborne battlefield and ground surveillance aircraft collapsed in 2017 over a preposterous — but not uncommon