Gp Capt Anant Bewoor argues in this article that the IAF was not fully prepared for…
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The S-75 Dvina – India’s first Surface to Air Guided Weapon
Which "aircraft" was 35 ft long, inducted in 1964, could fly at three times the speed…
IAF goes International : Exercises with foreign air forces
Soldiering is not a profession which gives one the opportunity to learn on the job. The…
The Airlift into Leh
Another perspective on the article HERK: HERO OF THE SKIES By Group Captain (Retd.) A G…
Air Marshal Mohan Swaroop Chaturvedi
This is a short summary of the career of Air Marshal Mohan Swaroop Chaturvedi (IND/1592). It…
Lysanders to Hurricanes : Air Commodore H S Ratnagar
When No.1 Squadron, Indian Air Force went into operations in February 1942 against the Japanese in…
Inducting T-72 tanks by air into Jaffna
Gp Capt Bewoor commanded No.44 Squadron from Sep 87 to Oct 89. The airlifting of tanks…
Independence and the China War
After his flying accident in a Spitfire in WW2, which kept him from flying for some…
The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965
Reviewed by Air Commodore Jasjit Singh (Retd), Padma Bhushan, AVSM VrC