In a post on X, the MND stated that one out of the five sorties crossed the median line and entered the country's southwestern Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ).
She is the first President to have taken sortie in two fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force. Earlier, she took a sortie in Sukhoi 30 MKI in 2023, the President's Secretariat said in an official statement.
Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal AP Singh flew a Rafale fighter jet over Ambala on Wednesday, leading a formation sortie that also saw President Droupadi Murmu experience the aircraft for the first time.
In a post on X, the MND stated that 23 of the 25 sorties crossed the median line and entered the country's northern and southwestern Air Defence Identification Zones (ADIZs).
The second cloud-seeding trial was conducted by IIT Kanpur on Tuesday, using a Cessna aircraft fitted with salt-based and silver iodide flares to induce rain. The first trial was conducted last week over Burari on September 23.
Indian aviation industry's net financial losses to increase to Rs. 95-105 billion in FY2026, credit rating agency ICRA said on Tuesday. The agency expects net losses to widen more than 100 billion in FY2026, compared with Rs. 55 billion in FY2025. The increase is attributed to slower traffic
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said HAL's MoU with PJSC-UAC to produce SJ-100 aircraft in India will boost short-haul connectivity under UDAN and mark a major step toward Aatmanirbharta, creating jobs and reviving passenger aircraft manufacturing since the AVRO era.
The operation was conducted by IIT-Kanpur using a Cessna aircraft fitted with salt-based and silver iodide flares to induce rain. The aircraft entered Delhi from the Meerut side and the experiment faced a slight delay from the scheduled 12:30 pm time due to poor visibility.
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Russia's Public Joint Stock Company United Aircraft Corporation (PJSC-UAC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to produce for the first time a passenger aircraft SJ-100 in India. The agreement was inked in Moscow on Monday, according to