Bharat Rakshak:Indian Air Force

Album: Air Force Day 2006 Rehearsal - Hindon AFS

by Kapil Chandni Starting from this year, the annual Air Force Day Parade for October 2006 moved to Hindon from Palam. This enabled the IAF to lay out a much longer and more impressive parade than the previous ones. It also allowed the IAF to throw

Album: Aircraft Display at Ahmedabad

Kapil Chandni Thirty Six images from the recent static aircraft display at Ahemedabad Airport.

Album: Chennai Air Show 2003

The IAF Training command in association with the Tamil-Nadu Government, conducted its fourth region-wise air display for the year 2003, in the metropolitan city of Chennai. The programme included a static display on 31st August, a musical concert on 4th

Album: Cope India 2004 - The Indian Perspective

Exercise Cope India 04 was an Air Force level exercise between the USAF and the Indian Air Force (IAF) and marked a beginning of a new chapter in Indo-US bilateral relations.

Album: Cope India 2004 - The USAF Album

The Last time the Indian Air Force and the United States Air Force engaged in Dissimilar Air Combat Training was Forty years back in 1963 during Exercise Shiksha. This year, Cope India saw the two airforces return to DACT over the skies of Gwalior.

Album: Cope India 2006 - Photos by Sanjay Simha

Sanjay Simha , veteran photographer had visited Kalaikunda and covered the exercises during the duration of the event. He has taken several photographs of the IAF and USAF aircraft during the exercise. Nearly seventy of his photographs are featured on thi

Album: Cope India 2006 - Photos by Vishnu Som

Vishnu Som of New Delhi Tele Vision (NDTV) was one of the reporters covering Ex. Cope India 2006 at Kalaikunda. The following are a series of photographs taken by Vishnu during the press day at Kalaikunda.

Album: Cope India 2006 - The USAF Album

Cope India 2006, named for the fiscal year, marks the first time that U.S. Air Force F-16 pilots have flown against Indian fighters in dissimilar air combat training and the first time that U.S. pilots have trained with the Indian air force’s newest and

Album: Exercise Eastern Bridge in Oman (2009)

Far removed is the terrain at Oman that IAF pilots of ‘Flaming Arrows’ and ‘Cobras’, the two Jaguar Squadrons, normally fly around their airbase - Gorakhpur, in India. Poor visibility, birds, obstructions and other restrictions usually make flying pretty

Album: Exercise Garuda - Gwalior

The airbase at Gwalior in Northern India played host to an Indo-French Exercise named ‘GARUDA’ from 6th February until 17th February. The exercise took place at one of the most important and certainly one of the busiest bases of the Indian Air Force.

Album: Exercise Garuda II - Istres AFB, France 2005

Ex GARUDA II was conducted between 15th to the 30th of June, 2005, at the Istres Airbase in France. It was the first time that the Indian Air Force took part in an air exercise in Europe and especially, the first time that it deployed its Sukhoi 30K out o

Album: Hyderabad Airshow 2003

The Indian Air Force in conjuction with the AP Tourism department conducted a Static Aircraft Display and a Flypast at Hyderabad on 7th, 8th and 10th May 2003. 55 aircraft took part in the flypast on 10th May. These included three Sukhoi-30 MKIs, two MiG-

Album: Illyushin-76 at Hawaii

After several weeks of training with their Indian counterparts, Airmen from the 15th Airlift Wing got the chance to reverse their roles and fly with an Indian aircrew on their IL-76 medium range cargo jet.

Album: Indradhanush - Sukhoi-30s to the UK

by Kapil Chandni : The Indian Air Force is sending a team of its most capable aircraft Sukhoi Su-30 MKIs of 30 Sqn AF(The Rhinos) supported by two IL-78 MKI tankers of 78 Sqn AF (Valourous MARS) and two IL-76 Strategic Airlifters too.

Album: Indradhanush - The Eurofighter - Sukhoi-30 Air to Air Gallery

Photographs of SB041 flying along with a Eurofighter and a Tornado of the RAF

Album: Indradhanush - The eurospotter photos!

Images from various sources incl PRO IAF Wg Cdr TK Singha, UK MoD, Royal Air Force and Mssrs Antonios Tsagaratos , Simon Watson, Phil Camp and others.

Album: Iron Fist 2013

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Album: Mumbai Air Show 2004

After nearly a gap of forty years, The city of Mumbai was witness to a joint Air Display by Air India and the Indian Air Force on 17 October 2004. The airshow was preceded by a Static Display of Aircraft and Weaponry at the Mumbais Chatrapathi Shivaji In

Album: Patrouille De France at Hindon 2004

A display by the IAF’s skydiving team — the Air Devils — and microlite aircraft preceded the show, attended by senior IAF officials, including Vice-Chief Air Marshal S.K. Malik and the force’s first woman three-star officer Air Marshal Padma Bandd

Album: Red Arrows at Dundigal, 2016

Members of the world-renowned display team are spending several days in Hyderabad, with a number of engagements and events planned - including a display at the Air Force Academy Hyderabad on the 17 November 2016. This will also be an opportunity for the

Album: Red Arrows at Hindon 2003

An occasion to remember in 2003 was the combined display of aerobatics by the RAFs Aerobatic Display team The Red Arrows and the IAFs Suryakirans Display team.

Album: Red Flag 08: Lightnings Return

An exclusive report from Kapil Chandni with photographs coupled with the MoD Press Release

Album: Thiruvananthapuram Air Display 2008

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