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India utility: 95 [14] HAL LUH: India utility 6 on order [31] Alouette III: France/India liaison Chetak: 77 [14] license-built by HAL. A fleet of around 120 aircraft. [32] Cheetal: 18 [33] SA 315B Lama: France/India utility Cheetah: 18 [14] Trainer Aircraft; BAE Hawk: United Kingdom Advanced trainer: Hawk 132: 101 [14] [34] HAL Kiran: India ...
Vir Chakra [ 2 ] Group Captain Abhinandan Varthaman VrC (born 21 June 1983) is an Indian Air Force fighter pilot of Mig-21 Bison plane who on 27 February 2019 scrambled to intercept F-16 & JF-17 of Pakistan Air Force 's (PAF) that were conducting retaliatory airstrikes on Jammu and Kashmir. He was awarded the Vir Chakra by the Indian government.
During the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965, the Indian and Pakistani Air Forces engaged in large-scale aerial combat for the first time. In the air war, which took place in September, both air forces conducted thousands of defensive and offensive sorties over Indian and Pakistani airspace. [11] Both India and Pakistan claimed victory in the air war ...
On 9 March 2022, at 6:43 pm, Air Defence Operations Centre of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) picked up a high-speed flying object inside Indian territory. "From its initial course, the object suddenly manoeuvred towards Pakistani territory and violated Pakistan's air space, ultimately falling near Mian Channu at 6:50 pm", according to Director General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar of the Inter-Services ...
The United States and the United Kingdom have been the principal suppliers of military matériel to India and Pakistan since 1947. Both India and Pakistan were Commonwealth republics. While India had pursued a policy of nominal non-alignment, Pakistan was a member of both CENTO and SEATO and an ally of the West in its struggle against communism ...
The Royal Pakistan Air Force (RPAF) was established on 15 August 1947 with the independence of Pakistan from British India. The RPAF began with a paper share allotment of 2,332 personnel, a fleet of 24 Tempest II fighter-bombers, 16 Hawker Typhoon fighters, two H.P.57 Halifax bombers, two Auster aircraft, twelve North American Harvard trainers and ten de Havilland Tiger Moth biplanes.
Pakistan Air Force Museum Faisal (Urdu: پاک فضائیہ عجائب گھر) is the official museum of the Pakistan Air Force located on the south-western edge of PAF Base Faisal near Karsaz Flyover on Shahrah-e-Faisal at Karachi. The museum is the only military aviation museum in Pakistan, with more than 50 aircraft, radars and missiles on ...
The 2019 Balakot airstrike was a bombing raid conducted by Indian warplanes on 26 February 2019 in Balakot, Pakistan, against an alleged training camp of the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed. [3][4] Open source satellite imagery has revealed that no targets of consequence were hit. [1][2][5] The following day, Pakistan shot down an Indian ...