In the latest edition of #ThePrint #OffTheCuff, Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari speaks to ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta & Deputy Editor Snehesh Alex Philip....
In the latest episode of ThePrint’s ‘Off The Cuff’, former air force chief VR Chaudhari spoke at length about Operation Sindoor and its impact on the IAF’s future.
With spares unavailable, India’s armed forces turned to battlefield improvisation of decades-old systems to keep air defences lethal & unbreached during Pakistan’s attacks.
On Operation Sindoor, the statement that Indian forces struck terrorist infrastructure and eliminated multiple threats without crossing the Line of Control or international boundary.
DGMO Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai says Op Sindoor was conceptualised with a clear military aim to punish the perpetrators and planners of terror and to destroy their terror infrastructure.
Both women officers are trailblazers in their own right. The Army colonel was a military observer in Congo. The IAF wing commander led an air relief mission in Arunachal Pradesh.
With the Rafale deal sealed, Astra integration is set to become a key component of India’s future air combat loadout. Missile likely to equip all IAF fighters, barring Mirage 2000.
Farrhana Bhatt’s presence on Bigg Boss 19 can’t redefine Kashmir. But it can remind the Valley that Kashmiris deserve to be seen in their full human range—not squeezed into specific categories.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
India is now the only country still operating the Jaguar, long retired by its original users, France in 2005 and the UK in 2007, and secondary operators like Oman, Nigeria and Ecuador.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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