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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]
A Bréguet 1050 Alizé anti-submarine aircraft taking off from INS Vikrant. The first naval air station, INS Garuda, was inaugurated in Cochin on 11 May 1953. [5] This went hand-in-hand with the commissioning of the No.550 Squadron, [6] utilising Short Sealand aircraft [7] and Fairey Firefly aircraft [8]
It is a further development of the HAL Tejas, or the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), programme which began in the 1980s to replace India's ageing MiG-21 fighters. The Tejas Mk 2 is being designed to replace multiple strike-fighters like SEPECAT Jaguars , Dassault Mirage-2000 & MiG-29 of Indian Air Force.
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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]
The Indian Navy (IN), which is the naval warfare branch of the Indian Armed Forces, has approximately 135+ warships on active commission. [1]By forethought, the IN's Maritime Capability Perspective Plan (MCPP) for the period 2012-2027 had set the objective of the service becoming a 200-ship fleet by 2035; however, that number has since been reduced to 175 in December 2019 - principally owing ...