Air Force
‘Still Can’t Believe Siddharth Was Brought Down By Our Own Missile’
On this day a year ago, amidst a tense air battle over the Rajouri sector in Jammu & Kashmir, the Indian Air Force made a catastrophic…
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Air Force
REVEALED: Wing Commander Abhinandan’s Elusive Vir Chakra Citation
Indian Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman who was officially credited with shooting down a Pakistan Air Force jet before being shot down himself during an…
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And Now, Indian Army Wants 200 Wheeled Armoured Vehicles For Pak Border
Elevated tensions between India and Pakistan this year have compelled the Indian Army to sidestep an endlessly meandering force modernisation program for an urgent acquisition of…
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Deconstructing Pak’s Missile Muddle: Conclusive Evidence, Or Elaborate Trick?
Why has a grainy photograph, purportedly showing four damaged air-to-air missiles, become the centrepiece of a fresh controversy over the outcome of the India-Pakistan air battle…
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Fighting For Son’s Honour, Army Major’s Mother Puts Government On Notice
This week, on March 25, Meghna Girish wrote to India's Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The letter was the latest of several she has written since her…
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Amidst India-Pak Claims, Russia Embraces IAF ‘Kill’ As New Life For Missile Family
The fog over India's dramatic and unprecedented Feb 27 air battle with Pakistan thickened this week, with Pakistani defense sites, and social media posting pictures (that…
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‘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 foremost…
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COLUMN: Amidst Fog Of War Over Feb 26-27, 5 Big Gains For The IAF
The fog of war that persists over several aspects of the February 26 and 27 will not likely lift soon. And while the strands of available…
Aircraft And Helicopters
‘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 stick,…
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Why PM Modi’s INS Arihant Message Today Was For Pakistan, Not China
Armed with up to a dozen nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, India's INS Arihant is said to have completed its first nuclear deterrent patrol last week in the…
