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October 17, 2025, 07:50 PM - 2 min read
At the conclave, the commanders discussed key operational, maintenance, and logistics challenges and exchanged innovative solutions aimed at improving mission readiness and fleet availability.
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October 9, 2025, 02:34 PM - 2 min read
Each dish was named after a city or site destroyed by the Indian Armed Forces during Operation Sindoor—the May 7 offensive that targeted nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in response to the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir.
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October 8, 2025, 01:38 PM - 4 min read
"As we celebrate our triumphs and success, we must remain prepared for the future. Our planning must be innovative, practical and adaptive. Our training must be based on the principle of 'train like we fight'. Hence, it should continue to be honest, rigorous and relevant to the emerging challenges," he said.
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October 3, 2025, 07:38 PM - 3 min read
In a career spanning nearly four decades, Air Marshal Bains, an alumnus of the National War College, South Africa, and National Defence College, Israel, has held various key field and staff appointments.
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October 3, 2025, 02:07 PM - 3 min read
"We have signs of one C-130 class of aircraft...and at least 4 to 5 fighter aircraft, most likely F-16, because that place happened to be F-16 with whatever was under maintenance at that time,” he said while addressing the media in national capital.
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September 30, 2025, 06:37 PM - 3 min read
"We have just signed the contract for an additional 97 LCAs. We are looking at LCA Mark 2 in the coming years. We are also investing in AMCA. Those are the products to move forward with. But it will take time. So in the immediate future, we need to fill that gap. So that effort is on," he said.
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September 30, 2025, 01:43 PM - 3 min read
“A common digital backbone that will respect the unique requirements of each service, provides shared visibility of critical stocks... Work on this has already begun... We must resolve to move towards jointness together. Only when our three services come together and grow together will we be able to successfully respond to challenges.”
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September 27, 2025, 04:21 PM - 6 min read
The inordinate delays in the acquisition of modern weapons can be very frustrating for the leadership of the armed forces. The IAF top brass has repeatedly flagged excruciating delays in the delivery of the indigenous ‘Tejas’ fighter aircraft. This is particularly significant in the light of China’s rapid pace of air force modernisation. It is a matter of concern that the first batch of 40 ‘Tejas’ Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), ordered in 2009–2010, is yet to be fully delivered by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
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September 25, 2025, 07:14 PM - 4 min read
"All I can say is that the forward policy should not have been applied uniformly to Ladakh and NEFA. The two regions had very different histories of the dispute, a different security context, and entirely different terrain. In Ladakh, China had already occupied much of Indian territory, whereas in NEFA, the legitimacy of India's claim was stronger. To equate the two and pursue identical policies was, in my view, a bit flawed," he said.
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September 24, 2025, 05:53 PM - 2 min read
On Wednesday, the MiG-21 made its final flight during the last rehearsal, marking the end of its service at Air Force Station Chandigarh.
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September 24, 2025, 03:10 PM - 3 min read
Air Marshal Dixit said certain drones which "we caught were sophisticated, using... AI, visual means, and even if we jammed their GPS, they were able to reach somewhere close, and they are also working and becoming better, so we have to go one step ahead.”
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September 23, 2025, 11:33 PM - 2 min read
Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh will lead a farewell flypast as the iconic MiG-21 fighter jet, India’s supersonic backbone, retires after nearly six decades.
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