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1 Air Defence Area


Date Raised : 1962-12-26 Disbanded : 1966-10-14 Location : Ambala
ADCC is a premier Air Defence Units of HQ WAC which came into being on 26 Dec 62 at Ambala as No 1 Air Defence Area with Air Cmde JC Verma DFC, being its founder commander. During its infancy, the ADA had five sector operation centres employing one type 21, one type 15 and three ANTPSIE radars. Subsequent to the Chinese debacle, the air defence of the country was given a big boost with the help of US aid in the form of Star Sapphire radars. Consequently No 1 ADA was redesignated on 15 Oct 66 as No 1 Air Defence Control Centre. The Units was made responsible for the air defence of the entire area of responsibility of WAC. Over the years, ADCC moved from Ambala to Delhi to be co-located with HQ, WAC. The position of AOC, ADCC is also known as AD Cdr

Commanding Officers


18 Jan 63 - 23 Jun 63
Air Commodore
Jagdish Chandra Varma
1646 GD(P)
AOC
Ambala

26 Jun 63 - 31 Mar 64
Air Commodore
Ramchander Atmaram
1583 GD(P)
AOC
Ambala

10 Jun 64 - 13 Sep 65
Air Commodore
Ramdas Shivram Shipurkar
2177 GD(P)
AOC
Ambala

14 Sep 65 - 14 Oct 66
Air Commodore
Charandas Gurudas Devashar
1867 GD(P)
AOC
Ambala
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Unit continued existence as 1 ADCC
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