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143 Helicopter Unit, is the latest attack helicopter unit of the Indian Air Force. It is the first unit to be equipped with the indigenously developed HAL Prachand attack helicopter. [2] The unit was raised on 1 June 2022 and started receiving the initial lot of helicopters from 18 July, 2022. The unit officially inducted 4 HAL Prachand on 3 ...
Army variants of helicopter are to be armed with 20 mm nose gun, 70 mm rockets, helicopter-launched anti-tank guided missile and a new air-to-air missile different from the Mistral 2 missile used on air force variant. [76] [77] [78] IAF formally inducted HAL Prachand into 143 Helicopter Unit at Jodhpur Air Force Station on 3 October 2022.
No. 119 Helicopter Unit, IAF: Jodhpur Air Force Station: Mi-8: No. 32 Wing No. 143 Helicopter Unit, IAF: Jodhpur Air Force Station: HAL Prachand: No. 6 Squadron IAF: Jamnagar Air Force Station: JaguarIS/IM/IB No. 33 Wing No. 28 Squadron IAF: Jamnagar Air Force Station: Mig 29: No.33 Wing No. 141 SSS Flight, IAF Jamnagar Air Force Station: HAL ...
No. 143 Helicopter Unit: Dhanush: South Western Air Command: 1 June 2022 Jodhpur AFS, Rajasthan: Prachand [67] No. 152 Helicopter Unit: Mighty Armours: Central Air Command: 14 September 1988 Saraswa AFS, Uttar Pradesh: Mi-17 [68] No. 153 Helicopter Unit: Daring Dragons: Western Air Command: 1 November 1988 Udhampur AFS, Jammu and Kashmir: Mi-17 ...
Pages in category "Indian Air Force aircraft squadrons" The following 96 pages are in this category, out of 96 total. ... IAF; No. 143 Helicopter Unit, IAF;
The acquisition of Sikorsky S-55 in 1954 heralded the creation of the first Helicopter Flight within the IAF, and in 1958 become established as the first dedicated Helicopter Unit, No. 104 Helicopter Squadron. [2] The IAF S-55s were later phased out in 1966 inducting other helicopter types into service, such as the Mil Mi-35 model in 1990. [3]
The claim by the unnamed source in the Haaretz article that an IDF helicopter fired on Israelis cannot be independently verified but the claims by Shaun King and Ali Awad go well beyond what that ...
The unit created a world record for the highest landing by a HAL Cheetah helicopter at an altitude of 23,250 ft. On 8 February 2012, this Helicopter Unit was re-equipped with the latest HAL Dhruv MKIII .