The First Air Battle – 3rd September 1965

Gp Capt Mohan "Manna" Murdeshwar is one of the 'few' , who flew with the elite…

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 6: The Lull – Air Operations (Sept 8th to 14th)

 

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…