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This article provides a list of active Indian military aircraft currently in service with the Indian Armed Forces, as well as aircraft on order. For a list of historical military aircraft used by the Indian military, see list of historical aircraft of the Indian Air Force .
Westland Wapiti, one of the first aircraft flown by the Royal Indian Air Force Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber over the Deccan plateau in the early 1950s. Canberra medium bomber.
Multirole combat aircraft: 2023 (planned) Building prototypes [27] HAL TEDBF (Twin Engine Deck Based Fighter) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Carrier-based fighter 2026 (Expected) Under development [28] HAL AMCA (Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Stealth multirole fighter: 2024 (Expected) Building prototypes [29]
The Indian Air Force, as of October 2024, has a shortage of its fighter jet squadron count. The IAF has 31 combat squadrons as against a requirement of 42. This quantity is on par with the IAF's fighter fleet during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 .
The acquisition is a part of the Multi-Role Carrier Borne Fighters programme to acquire 57 fighter jets. The Dassault Rafale-M was chosen over the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet . Number was revised from 57 to 36 in mid-2020 [ 74 ] and later to 26 by 2021-end.
This is an organized list of all of the active aircraft squadrons that currently exist in the Indian Air Force. Squadrons might have changed names and designations many times over the years, so they are listed by their current designation. Expeditionary and provisional units are not listed.
From February 1955 to December 1958, ten Firefly aircraft were acquired. To meet the training requirements of the pilots, the indigenously developed HAL HT-2 trainer was inducted into the FRU. On 17 January 1959, the FRU was commissioned as Indian Naval Air Squadron (INAS) 550, to be the first Indian naval air squadron. [1]
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