With its headquarters located at Akkulam in Trivandrum (Kerala), it controls air operations in the southern sector which includes all the southern states, the Bay of Bengal, the Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Lakshwadeep. Southern Air Command features permanent airbases at Bidar, Bangalore, Begumpet, Dundigal, Hakimpet, Tambaram, Port Blair and Car Nicobar with forward airbases at Madurai and Salur. Some airbases also have training and support units. SAC features no combat aircraft squadrons, but could do so in an emergency like the operations in Maldives in 1987 where Mirage 2000s from Gwalior AFB in Central Air Command participated.

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