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Sunday, November 9, 2025
TopicIndian Air Force

Topic: Indian Air Force

Boyra Boys & under-3 minute air battle with Pakistan drew first blood for India in 1971

The battle, which led to the shooting down of three Pakistani fighter aircraft, shows the hallmarks of Indian Air Force — courage, culture and camaraderie.

Battle of Walong — how India fought its only counter-attack in 1962 India-China war

57 years later, ThePrint details how the Indian Army held the Chinese back at Walong for nearly three weeks despite little resources.

Want to fly Tejas, Rafale or Su-30? IAF rolls out multiplayer version of its mobile game

The IAF's mobile game 'Indian Air Force - A Cut Above' is a combat simulator which lets players choose from an array of fighter jets, and play team battles or a death match.

Time to run IAF in a sleek, corporate way. It’s the Force that counted in Kargil, Balakot

We expect an Air Force officer to land on the moon in a few years. They are trained to touch the sky.

The British were so impressed by Indian WWI aviators that they gave India its own Air Force  

More than a million Indians served in WWI. Among them, dapper in RFC uniforms, was a tiny number of Indians who served in the flying corps.

IAF receives its first Rafale aircraft in France, to be inducted on 8 October

The French-made aircraft was received by an IAF team. The full order of fighter jets is expected to arrive in India in May 2020.

Indian Air Force should drop its plan to make more Tejas Mark-2s & focus on AMCA fighter jets

The fourth generation MWF will probably be ready by end of next decade. China already has two fifth-generation fighter jets, and it can sell to Pakistan.

How Pakistan planned to hit India back for Balakot — the mission, the fighters, the tactics

Pakistan was incapable of affording a full-blown war with India. But the response  still had to convey an ‘impression’ to India and the world that Islamabad was willing to escalate the crisis.

First Rafale could be handed over to India in France on 8 October — the Air Force Day

Scheduling issues on Indian side push the date to October from 19 September. Air chief resurrects ‘Golden Arrows’ 17 Squadron today to induct Rafale.

Senior IAF officer expresses concern on Modi govt’s procedure to appoint next air chief

Modi government has begun the procedure of finding a successor to Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa, who is due to retire on 30 September.

On Camera

Moon madness has taken over modern dating. A waning crescent is the best time to ghost

Alongside buying into the grift that is dating apps, the girlies are also installing astrology apps like Astrotalk to investigate the same tired mystery—will he ever text back?

In NCLAT’s WhatsApp ruling, reminder of India’s cautious view of competition disputes involving Big Tech

WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.