The Track

Moved by the  plight of a group of stranded soldiers on the Amar Post, the CO…

The Atlantique Shoot Down

On 10 Aug 99 at 10:51 hrs IST an IAF ground radar picked up an aircraft…

Air Vice Marshal Manmohan Bahadur

  Air Vice Marshal Manmohan Bahadur 14665 F(P) (Retd),  had two tenures in the Siachen Pioneers, the first…

The Westland Lysander – The IAF’s first monoplane bomber

The Westland Lysander equipped three of the four IAF Squadrons in its heyday - Indian pilots…

Hunting Harvards in the Countryside

In the 1950s it was not uncommon for IAF aircraft to undertake "force landings" in the…

I was a Japanese Prisoner of War

Towards the end of November 1944, No.2 Squadron IAF moved from Kohat to Mambur airstrip on…

Induction Of T-72 Tanks Into The Battle Zone

Gp Capt Bewoor commanded No.44 Squadron from Sep 87 to Oct 89. The airlifting of tanks…

Saga of Longewala

 SAGA OF LONGEWALA Air Marshal (retd.) M.S. Bawa, PVSM, AVSM, VMFrom the Indian Air Force Journal,…

No.1 Squadron “Tigers” and the Imphal Siege

The complete story of No.1 Squadron's operations in the Imphal Battle told in detail never before…

Flying the Sukhoi-7 in Operation Cactus-Lily

Air Marshal Narayanan Menon was a Flight Lieutenant with No.26 Squadron at Adampur flying the massive…