Eyeing more sale of Rafales, French Defence Minister begins two-day India visit next week
India | Oct 22, 2017, 05:44 PM ISTAccording to a report in Times of India, France is very keen to hard-sell additional Rafale fighter jets to India.
According to a report in Times of India, France is very keen to hard-sell additional Rafale fighter jets to India.
The restriction on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway comes in view of the exercise involving the landings of 20 IAF planes, including AN-32 transport, Mirage 2000 and Sukhoi 30 MKI.
20 IAF aircrafts, including AN-32 transport, Mirage 2000 and Sukhoi 30 MKI, will land on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway in an exercise on October 24.
The court also issued fresh open-ended non-bailable warrants against alleged middlemen Christian Michel and Guido Haschke.
Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa on Sunday said that the Indian Air Force is prepared to fight a war at a short notice.
"Around 6 am today, a Mi-17 V5 helicopter while on a Air Maintenance mission crashed in Arunachal Pradesh. Court of Inquiry ordered," IAF said in a statement.
Air Chief B S Dhanoa said the Indian Air Force is capable of carrying out full spectrum of operations in case of two-front war.
The civilian operations from the IAF air base in Ghaziabad are likely to start during the winter schedule, which comes into effect from the last Sunday of October
The Indian Air Force today added muscle to its capabilities in the eastern region amid the ongoing standoff with China in the Doklam region. The IAF is learnt to have commissioned Air Force Station Arjan Singh in Panagarh
Around 100 fighter aircraft of eight air forces are expected to conduct advanced sorties involving air-to-air battles, air-to-ground attacks with high-level manoeuvring in this air exercise.
During the Kargil war in 1999, the IAF narrowly missed bombing a Pakistani army forward base that was hosting the current and Nawaz Sharif and General Pervez Musharraf.
Russia is keen on selling its new fighter jet MiG-35 to India with the MiG corporation's chief saying the country has evinced interest in the aircraft and talks were on to understand its requirements
IAF chief Birender Singh Dhanoa, who is presently on a three-day visit to France, is expected to assess and discuss if the supply of the Rafale jets could be expedited.
A special plane of Indian Air Force (IAF) carrying bodies of Amarnath Yatra victims and 19 yatris who sustained injuries in the attack landed here. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was present at the airport to receive them.
The incident took place in Balesar area around 11.30 am when the aircraft was on a routine sortie, SP (Jodhpur Rural) Dr Ravi said.
The Army, the ITBP and the Arunachal Pradesh police launched the search operation to locate the IAF chopper which was on a flood rescue mission near Sagalee in Papum Pare district.
An IAF chopper, which was on a flood victim rescue mission, with three crew members on board, went missing near Sagalee in Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh today.
IAF's authorised strength of 42 fighter squadrons ‘is the minimum strength necessary to dominate a two-front conflict’ threat from Pakistan and China. The IAF currently has 32 fighter squadrons.
The wreckage of the Sukhoi jet that crashed on May 23, was found in a thick forest around 60 km from Tezpur city on May 26.
The Su-30 MKI jet had gone missing shortly after taking off from Tezpur Air Force station on a routine training sortie.
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