Indian Air Force

17 Apr 2018

The integrated land-air-sea combat exercise, Gagan Shakti 2018, with 1,150 fighter aircraft, helicopters and drones and over 15,000 IAF personnel participating, is being carried out with active participation of the Army and the Navy in a pan-India format

07 Apr 2018

07 Apr 2018

A number of fighter jets, including the Eurofighter Typhoon, Lockheed`s F-16, Saab’s Gripen and Russian aircraft MiG-35 are expected to vie for the contract worth over $15 billion that allows makers of both single engine and twin-engine combat jets to participate

17 Mar 2018

Until recently, Lockheed Martin’s F-16 and Saab’s Gripen were in a two-horse race supply at least 100 single-engine jets to the Indian Air Force. But the government has now reportedly asked the IAF to also evaluate Boeing’s twin-engine F/A-18 Super Hornet

24 Feb 2018

China has deployed its Chengdu J-10 Vigorous Dragon multirole fighters and Shenyang J-11, a modified version of the Soviet Sukhoi Su-27, air superiority fighters to counter India’s deployment of Su-30 MKI long-range fighters along the India-China border

19 Feb 2018

07 Feb 2018

06 Feb 2018

Boeing Co is in talks to sell its F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets to the Indian Navy, which is reviewing proposals for 57 jets – though several technical evaluation has yet to take place

05 Feb 2018

Chief of Staff of the US Air Force General David L Goldfein became the first foreign military chief to fly the indigenously developed Tejas single-seat, single-jet engine,  fourth-generation aircraft that can fly at 1,350 km per hour

21 Dec 2017

The 83 Tejas aircraft will be of Mark-1 configuration, an improved version of the single-engine fighter that is still in the design stage

22 Nov 2017

The 2.8-mach BrahMos, said to the world’s fastest anti-ship cruise missile, has a range of 290-km and its integration with an aircraft like Sukhoi is a big boost for India’s strike capabilities

04 Nov 2017

24 Oct 2017

The IAF exercise, in collaboration with the Uttar Pradesh government, is the first on an expressway

06 Oct 2017

19 Sep 2017

While state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd had made planes under licence, some private players bidding for manufacturing collaboration are to start from scratch, according to commentators

18 Sep 2017

The national flag flew at half-mast at all government buildings in the national capital in honour of the iconic hero of the 1965 India-Pakistan war, who was the only IAF officer to be promoted to five-star rank

16 Sep 2017

The air-to-air Astra missile, which is designed for 80 km range in head-on mode and 20 km range in tail-chase mode, can carry a 15 kg high-explosive warhead and can travel without being tracked by enemy radars

02 Sep 2017

Amid intense competition for IAF's requirement for a single engine-fighter jet, Swedish defence major SAAB on Friday announced a collaboration with India’s Adani Group to manufacture their Gripen fighter jets and other high-tech products in India

01 Sep 2017

The case filed with Special CBI Judge Arvind Kumar also names Tyagi's cousin Sanjeev alias Julie along with advocate Gautam Khaitan in the Rs450-crore bribery in connection with the Rs3,600 crore chopper deal

01 Aug 2017

24 Jul 2017

Flight tests of MiG-35 fighter aircraft began on 26 January and the equipment and systems in the aircraft are comparable to thse installed on Western fifth-generation fighter jets

19 Jun 2017

24 May 2017

The Pakistani action comes after a report last week that the Indian Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa has written a personal letter to nearly 12,000 officers of the Indian Air Force asking them ''to be prepared for operations with our present holdings, at a very short notice"

20 May 2017

Amidst reports of force mobilisation and deployment of SSG commandoes by Pakistan after continued ceasefire violations,  Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa has asked IAF officers to be ready for operations at "very short notice"

08 May 2017

The issue of technology access has now been resolved as the agreement for joint development of technology obviates the need for technology transfer