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1 Air Defence Control Centre Date Raised : 1966-10-15 Location : Delhi 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
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Unit previously existed as 1 ADA
Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| Unknown to | Air Commodore Charandas Gurudas Devashar | 1867 F(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 01 Mar 69 to 14 Aug 70 | Air Commodore Madhav Bhawrao Naik | 1874 F(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| Unknown to | Air Commodore Surinder Singh | 3009 F(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 01 May 88 to 28 Feb 90 | Air Vice Marshal Trilochan Singh | 5043 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| Unknown to | Air Vice Marshal Tushar Sen | 6006 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| Unknown to | Air Vice Marshal Man Mohan Singh Vasudeva | 6128 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| Unknown to 31 Dec 95 | Air Vice Marshal Vinod Patney | 6125 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| 01 Jan 96 to 01 Jul 97 | Air Vice Marshal Milind Shankar | 6130 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| Unknown to 17 Aug 98 | Air Vice Marshal Manpreet Singh Brar | 8715 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| 17 Aug 98 to | Air Vice Marshal Tej Mohan Asthana | 7672 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| 01 Sep 00 to 31 Aug 02 | Air Vice Marshal Babu Ajit Kumar Shetty | 10110 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| Unknown to | Air Vice Marshal Ajit Vishwanath Vaidya | 11848 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| Unknown to 30 Nov 09 | Air Vice Marshal Madhusudhan Banerjee | 13400 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| Unknown to | Air Vice Marshal Suneet Shripad Soman | 14681 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| Unknown to | Air Vice Marshal Raghunath Nambiar | 16378 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| Unknown to | Air Vice Marshal Harjit Singh Arora | 16557 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| Unknown to 31 Jul 19 | Air Vice Marshal Mohan Kumar Rao | 17343 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
| 01 Aug 19 to | Air Vice Marshal Shiv Ratan Singh | 18083 F(P) | AOC | Delhi |  |
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