The indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) will complete seven years of service in the Indian Air Force on July 1. Christened Tejas in 2003, the aircraft is a multi- role platform that ranks amongst the best in its class. It has been designed to undertake the Air Defence, Maritime Reconnaiss
Two Italian air force officers and an aerospace engineer from the National Research Council of Italy will join a Virgin Galactic instructor and the spaceplane's two pilots on a suborbital ride.
In a major step towards proving its ability to hold large-scale aerial operations, the Indian Air Force is going to hold a major multilateral exercise codenamed 'Exercise Tarang Shakti' in October-November this year in which 10-12 top air powers of the world would participate.
Three Indian Air Force Rafale fighter jets, as part of the military contingent, are poised to participate in the Bastille Day flypast over the Champs Elysees, Paris, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be the guest of honour, as per the release.
Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari made these remarks while delivering a keynote address at a capstone seminar organised by Indian Air Force and Centre for Air Power Studies.
During the course of his visit, Air Marshal R Radhish visited all important areas, reviewed training activities, administrative setup and Air Force Hospital.
"Exercise Ranvijay was conducted in UB Hills and Central Air Command Area of Responsibility from June 16-23 wherein full spectrum operations by all combat assets by day and night were carried out," Central Air Command of the IAF said.
At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on his maiden State visit to Egypt, former Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria (Retd) on Saturday said both sides are keen to develop their own defence industrial base and can collaborate in the field of military R&D an
The Indian Air Force officials on Saturday conducted an inspection of the Sultanpur airstrip before aircraft operations as a part of regular training of civil and military functionaries.
Soon after General Electric's aerospace arm announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to make fighter jet engines for Indian Air Force in India, Lt Gen Sanjay Kulkarni (Retd) on Thursday said that the deal is historic and th