Addressing an election rally at Kaithal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Shah ridiculed the criticism of the Congress over ''Shashtra Pujan'' or worship of weapons of the first Rafale fighter jet.
October 9, 2019It all started in 1932 as the Royal Indian Air Force under then British rule, and its name was changed to Indian Air Force in 1950.
October 9, 2019Singh will participate in the Rafale fighter aircraft handing over ceremony at Merignac, about 600 km from Paris, along with French Minister of Armed Forces Florence Parly.
October 7, 2019The Indian Air Force has already completed preparations, including readying required infrastructure and training of pilots, to welcome the fighter aircraft.
August 22, 2019The French Embassy in New Delhi said that the Garuda-VI exercise is a tactical Indo-French exercise aimed at enhancing the interoperability level of the French and Indian crews in air defence and ground attack missions as part of the Indo-Pacific cooperation between the two countries.
June 29, 2019The Indian Air Force Su-30 MKI will be operating in a simulated operational warfighting scenario along with the French Air Forces’ multirole Rafale aircraft.
June 26, 2019While large-scale corruption and crony capitalism is not new to India's defence sector, willfully buying faulty missiles to keep an occupation and apartheid regime happy is surely a new chapter in the story. It is imperative that we question this missile deal, demanding accountability from the establishment and challenging the agreement.
June 22, 2019The first Rafale combat aircraft would be inducted into the IAF’s Golden Arrows 17 Squadron. What makes it special is that the Golden Arrows 17 Squadron was commanded by Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa, the current Air Force chief, during the 1999 Kargil war.
May 29, 2019In its submissions, the government has argued that any interference may affect operational preparedness of Indian Air Force, further adding that the review petitions were based on flimsy and unfounded grounds.
May 25, 2019Disgruntled with the increased politicisation of the armed forces in the election process, projection of photographs of martyrs of Pulwama and Wing Commander Abhinandan, a group of veterans wrote a letter to the President, the supreme commander, on the issue.
May 14, 2019“Uncouth to the core. Imagine the filthiest of abuses that a Prime Minister has to endure from people whose only claim to fame is a nose. Lutyens outrage anyone,” was Irani’s response to the video.
May 2, 2019The Supreme Court had, on Monday, allowed the government to circulate a letter for adjournment of Tuesday’s hearing on the review petitions filed against its verdict on the Rafale fighter jet deal on grounds that it needs time to file reply on merits.
April 30, 2019In a setback to the Centre, the top court had, on April 10, flat out rejected the Centre's argument that classified documents accessed by the media on the Rafale fighter jet deal can't be evidence.
April 30, 2019Javadekar said Rahul and the Congress had been making statements against PM Modi and the BJP out of their desperation. He said Rahul Gandhi was making a wrongful presentation of the Supreme Court verdict on Rafale before the media and people.
April 15, 2019At this stage there is little need to go into the merits of the demand to probe afresh the “politically-loaded” Rafale purchase ~ the complexities would be dealt with subsequently.
April 12, 2019An aviation news website, Aviation International News (AIN) Online, had on 13 February reported that pilots of the Pakistani Air Force flew sorties on Qatari Rafale fighter jets.
April 11, 2019Can future Indian air warriors be safe without proper equipment at the time of conflict? The matter has assumed dangerous proportions. Hence, whosoever is the next Prime Minister, or whichever the political party in power after May 2019, they ought to look into the issue with all seriousness and try to resolve the perpetual crisis of the Air Force with a time-barred programme, arguably in the next 24 months.
April 8, 2019