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Tactics and Combat Development Establishment


Date Raised : 1972-05-13 Location : Jamnagar
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Aircraft Types operated over the years:
Unit previously existed as T&C D&T

Commanding Officers


13 May 72 - 30 Jun 74
Wing Commander
Annaswami Sridharan
4761 GD(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

01 Jul 74 - 04 Mar 76
Group Captain
Surendra Kumar Mehra
4197 GD(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

15 Mar 76 - 19 Jun 77
Group Captain
Mohinder Singh Bawa
4494 GD(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

20 Jun 77 - 04 Jul 79
Group Captain
Denzil Joseph Keelor
4805 GD(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

20 Aug 79 - 08 Jan 82
Group Captain
Krishna Narayana Pillai
4874 GD(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

09 Jan 82 - 03 Jul 84
Group Captain
Ashok Prataprao Shinde
5671 GD(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

04 Jul 84 - 03 Jan 86
Group Captain
Vinod Kumar Verma
6528 GD(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

14 Jul 86 - 31 Jan 89
Group Captain
Jayendra Sukrut Raj
8423 GD(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

01 Feb 89 - 21 Jan 92
Group Captain
Ajit Bhavnani
10440 GD(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

22 Jan 92 - 17 Apr 93
Group Captain
Raghu Rajan
8997 GD(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

18 Apr 93 - 16 Jun 96
Group Captain
Paramjit Singh Bhangu
12932 F(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

17 Jul 96 - 22 Jul 98
Group Captain
Sumit Mukerji
12925 F(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

30 Jun 98 - 22 Feb 01
Group Captain
Krishan Kumar Nohwar
13132 F(P)
Cmdt
Jamnagar

23 Feb 01 - 24 Nov 02
Group Captain
Ravinath Gururaj Burli
14667 F(P)
Cmdt
Gwalior

25 Nov 02 -
Group Captain
Balakrishnan Suresh
16206 F(P)
Cmdt
Gwalior

01 Jan 05 - 19 Nov 06
Group Captain
Chandrashekharan Hari Kumar
15881 F(P)
Cmdt
Gwalior

20 Nov 06 - 04 Jan 09
Group Captain
Diptendu Choudhury
17335 F(P)
Cmdt
Gwalior

05 Jan 09 - 01 Dec 09
Group Captain
Surat Singh
18563 F(P)
Cmdt
Gwalior

Unknown - 25 Dec 17
Group Captain
Pavan Kumar
20111 F(P)
Cmdt
Gwalior

01 Jun 18 -
Air Commodore
Venigalla Srinivas Choudhary
19869 F(P)
Cmdt
Gwalior
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