No. 143 Helicopter Unit (Dhanush) is a helicopter Unit and is equipped with HAL Prachand based at Jodhpur AFS. 143 Helicopter Unit, is the latest attack...

Mistral 2 missile used on air force variant. IAF formally inducted HAL Prachand into 143 Helicopter Unit at Jodhpur Air Force Station on 3 October 2022...

IAF". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 1 December 2023. "No.143 Helicopter Unit, IAF". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 1 December 2023. "No.152 Helicopter Unit, IAF"...

Aircraft to the IAF from 2018 to 2019, at a rate of 16 jets per year. LCH production will now take place in a newly built Light Combat Helicopter Production...

Force (IAF) first received AH-64As in 1990, for a fleet of 42 by 2000. The IAF's choice to buy Apaches over upgrading its AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters was...

@SWAC_IAF (1 May 2023). "Air Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari took over as AOC-in-C #SWAC on 01 May 23" (Tweet) – via Twitter. Thomas, Wilson (27 May 2020). "IAF...

military helicopter crashed near Krumovo air base, killing two] (in Bulgarian). 11 June 2018. Dominguez, Gabriel (4 April 2018). "IAF Mi-17-V5 helicopter crashes...

armour. The type was operated by the Israeli Air Force (IAF), with the First Attack Helicopter Squadron formally commencing on 1 December 1977. The service...

primary cargo helicopters of the IAF, being routinely used to carry both troops and heavy equipment. In 1969, during the War of Attrition, IAF CH-53s landed...

bags $1bn IAF chopper deal". indiatimes.com. 30 October 1012. Retrieved 12 February 2013. "Boeing delivers first four Chinook helicopters for IAF - Times...

the Garud Commando Force here. On 3 October 2022, IAF inducted HAL Prachand into 143 Helicopter Unit at Jodhpur Air Force Station. Airports in India List...

squadron flew the Flying Fortress, an aircraft credited with propelling the IAF into the realm of modern aerial warfare, during both the 1948 Arab–Israeli...

104", Defence Day, no. 5, Pakistan: Jang, p. 5, archived from the original on 19 March 2007. "1965 India-Pakistan war: How IAF's heroes slayed PAF's...

Uttarakhand, ITBP to improve border infrastructure, Hindustan Times, 18 July 2020. IAF to have seven AGL in Arunachal Pradesh, Economic Times, 2018. "Upgraded Advanced...

are known to be in operation in the IAF. At its peak, IAF operated 400 MiG-21s in 19 squadrons. In 2023, the IAF announced that it would replace its MiG-21...

April 1981. However, official IAF statistics do not list any downing of Israeli warplanes since the Yom Kippur War, and no loss of aircraft was reported...

29 February 2020. P, Rajat (19 July 2018). "Elite special forces of Army, IAF, Navy get major weapons upgrade". The Times of India. Retrieved 18 July 2019...

offensive sortie. These losses forced the IAF to withdraw helicopters from offensive roles. On 30 May, the IAF called into operation the Mirage 2000 which...

to the IAF with the first two loaned aircraft operational with Western Air Command on 27 July 1979. The second batch of aircraft for the IAF were 40...

C-17s are based at Hindon Air Force Station and are operated by No. 81 Squadron IAF Skylords. The first C-17 was delivered in January 2013 for testing...

first flight with the IAF in June 2017.  Australia Royal Australian Air Force – 33 Hawk 127s No. 76 Squadron at RAAF Base Williamtown No. 79 Squadron at RAAF...

Israeli operation in which UAVs, helicopters, and fighter jets were allocated to ground forces directly without IAF central command authorizing sorties...

bridges and a company of ten tanks crossed the ditch. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) was called into action, but many planes were shot down. The first close...

achieved by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) over the Bekaa Valley on 28 April 1981, against a Syrian Mi-8 helicopter, which was downed with cannon fire....

military action" and a "devastating blow for Hezbollah". In the coming days IAF allegedly also attacked and destroyed a large proportion of Hezbollah's long...

Stallion helicopter crashed during a joint Israeli-Romanian aviation exercise in the Carpathian Mountains in northern Romania, killing six IAF officers...

Times. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2019. "Maintenance Command - IAF". indianairforce.nic.in. Retrieved 13 August 2024. "4 Base Repair Depot,...

first kill by an F-15 was scored by Israeli Air Force (IAF) ace Moshe Melnik in 1979. During IAF raids against Palestinian factions in Lebanon in 1979–1981...

specialized unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), that used four–wheel drive vehicles and a Hughes 500 helicopter. In the 1980s...

Israeli requirements. Initially, Sharpshooter targeting pods designed for IAF F-16s were fitted for night-time strikes, but were less capable than the...