The Airlift that saved Kashmir

Ranjeet Bhatia Prologue In this article, I aim to bring forth and highlight the adverse conditions…

A Saga Forged in War – History of 7 Squadron. Dec. 1942 to June 1945

  This article is dedicated to the memory of my illustrious father late GP Capt. KL…

Battle of Chhamb 71 : Through the 6/5 Lenses of an FAC

This is the first person account of a young Pilot Officer caught in the thick of…

Special Heli Borne Ops – Sylhet and Meghna

Special Heli Borne Operations (SHBOs) by Mi-4 In 1971 “Liberation War” by Sqn Ldr Pushp Vaid,…

Sukhoi Strike Missions during the War

An interview with late Air Vice Marshal Madhabendra Banerji (4898).  On the 20th January 2019, Anchit Gupta…

Balakot Raid, Naushera battle and beyond

 The recent air strikes on Balakot and the subsequent air battle near Naushera will be fodder…

Ejected over No Man’s Land!

Gp Capt Gurdeep Singh Samra 8695 F(P)  was a young Flight Lieutenant with No.101 Squadron operating from…

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…

First MiG-23BN fighter landing at Leh

With the escalation of the Siachen operations in 1984, Contingency plans were developed to utilise high…

No.52 Squadron