
| Outdoor Galleries |
| Captured Vehicles |
| Wreckage Section |
| IAF Equipment |
Bringing the visitor closer to the war are the captured vehicles and
aircraft wreckages section. Situated outside the main hangar, both these sections
represent the oppositon faced by the IAF during the operations it had conducted.
The captured vehicles section has two T-59 tanks as well as a couple
of motor vehicles employed by the PAF. including an aircraft tractor. supplementing it is
the Wreckage section in which wreckage recovered from various shot down Pakistani aircraft
are on display. Tail sections of F-86 Sabres, Wing Sections, twisted 0.50 Caliber Machine
guns, Rocket Ordnance, Canopies, One burnt Jet engine and Ejection seats.
The IAF Equipment displayed is limited to the SA-2 SAM Missile and
the Divina Radar Unit. There is also a couple of tractors and logistics vehicles on
display besides the larger aircraft displayed which will be covered in the aircraft
section.
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Wreckage Section Seen in the middle are the tail sections of two F-86 Sabres shot down
over Halwara by Hunters. Various other pieces of unexploded ordnance, equipment recovered
from aircraft wing parts are also on display |
| Wing Sections of Sabres on
display. Nearest to the Camera, partly seen in the picture is the huge wing of a B-57
Bomber. |
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Captured Vehicles This section has on display two of the 23 odd T-59 Tanks destroyed by
the IAF in Longewala during the 1971 Operations. A Truck, and a Toyota Jeep recovered from
the East Pakistani detachment are also on display. |
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| VK-75 (SA-2) Divina
Inducted just before the beginning of the 1965
Indo Pakistan War, the SA-2 was the mainstay of the SAM defences for over a decade and a
half, also providing valuable inputs for India's own Guided Missile and Space Programmes. |
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VK-75 (SA-2) Divina [Fangsong]
Radar.
The target acquisition and guidance for the
SA-2 Missile was provided by this huge Divina Radar Unit. One of the phased radar systems
forms the center of attraction of the outdoor galleries. |
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