Indian Air Force

17 Jul 2014

The Indian Air Force withstood a high-pressures and aggressive campaign by British and American defence manufacturers to opt in favour of their fighter aircraft

02 Jun 2014

27 May 2014

Yet another of the IAF’s Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter aircraft, in service for 40 years, crashed today in the Bijbehara area of Anantnag district in Kashmir, killing the pilot

26 May 2014

05 May 2014

Astra is India’s first beyond visual range air-to-air missile indigenously designed and developed by DRDO, possessing high single shot kill probability

28 Mar 2014

The military transport aircraft, configured for special operations and airborne assault, had taken off from Agra on a routine mission

04 Mar 2014

The probe relates to deals signed between 2007 and 2011, when Rolls-Royce sold aero engines to power Hawk advanced jet trainers supplied by BAE Systems to the IAF

07 Feb 2014

India has postponed finalising the deal to buy 126 Rafale fighter planes until2014 - 15, as the  budget for defence procurement for the current year is almost exhausted

22 Jan 2014

17 Jan 2014

01 Jan 2014

The decision to scrap the deal comes more than a year after reports surfaced that two top officials of the company had allegedly paid bribes to bag the contract

20 Dec 2013

Tejas, the lightest fighter aircraft, is designed to ultimately replace the IAF's aging fleet of MiG-21s

12 Dec 2013

11 Dec 2013

The delta-wing MIG-21s evolved into the combat backbone of the force for three decades and close to 1,000 of all MIG variants have served the IAF to date

19 Nov 2013

Once the deal is cancelled, IAF may consider going back to Russia to replace its ageing Mi-8 choppers for a new VVIP fleet

26 Oct 2013

With the inauguration of AFCEL, the IAF has become the first among the three services to commission its own captive 3G network

24 Oct 2013

18 Oct 2013

02 Sep 2013

The C-17s, procured from the US under a deal estimated to cost more than Rs20,000 crore, will form the 81 'Skylord' Squadron

26 Jul 2013

24 Jul 2013

26 Jun 2013

All 20 people on board a helicopter that crashed on Tuesday while on a rescue mission in Uttarakhand have died, it was confirmed today

25 Jun 2013

A large Indian Air Force helicopter engaged in rescue operations in the flood-ravaged Uttarakhand state crashed this afternoon, killing all eight persons on board

25 Jun 2013

Rescue and relief operations are now focused on Badrinath with some improvement in the weather after heavy rains overnight and this morning across Uttarakhand

24 Jun 2013