Gp Capt Mohan "Manna" Murdeshwar is one of the 'few' , who flew with the elite…
Search Results for: The First Air Battle - 3rd September 1965
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…
Video – Heroes of the 1965 War
Courtesy of the HAL sponsored "Gnat Brotherhood" film, this short video clip features rare war time…
220 Squadron, IAF – Unsung warriors of 1965
The events of September 1st, 1965 are seared into the minds of every Air Force veteran…
Air Marshal Johnny Greene (1929-2013)
A legendary pilot and officer, Air Marshal Johnny William Greene passed away on 16 October 2013.…
Chapter 8: The rest of the war (Sept 15th to 23rd)
The last week of the war saw renewed efforts to capture more territory in the…
Chapter 3: Air Attack – Outbreak of the War (Sept 1-6th)
Operation GIBRALTER, as the Pakistanis called it, was a brilliant plan. It was the brainchild of…
The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965
Reviewed by Air Commodore Jasjit Singh (Retd), Padma Bhushan, AVSM VrC
When Lightning Strikes!
Throughout the decade in the 1980s, a generation of Indians grew up looking at 9 Hunters…