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My IAF Training Days 1941 By Air Marshal AR Pandit PVSM AVSM DFC

New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- At the end of every year, it is customary to take stock of achievements and failures gone by. A yearly balance sheet is a relatively simple matter but how does one go about it wh... Read More


The need for comprehensive upgrade

New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- When AOC, AF Station Gorakhpur in 1989, I was sent on a short course on Systems Analyses at Metcalfe House in old Delhi. I found this course very informative and useful because i... Read More


Evaluation in Egypt

New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- In 1987, Marconi Elliot of the UK informed Air Headquarters that they had fitted a nav/attack system in MiG-21Ms of the Egyptian Air Force (EAF). The system consisted of a Head U... Read More


The MiG-21 M arrives

New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- In 1973 the Soviet Union offered an improved version of the MiG-21, the MiG-21M, which in the IAF was known as the Type 96. This version had an AI radar (the RP- 21M) and a twin ... Read More


The MiG-21 upgrade saga and the step-by-step manner in which the IAF got its definitive MiG-21 bison

New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- The earliest mark of the MiG-21 (NATO Code Fishbed) to enter the IAF's inventory in 1963 was the MiG-21F-13, also referred to as the Type 74. It could carry 2 x K-13 Infra Red (I... Read More


Xiaomi 17 series expansion leaked: New fifth model targets camera lovers

India, Dec. 31 -- The Xiaomi 17 Series could soon expand to five models, according to a fresh leak, strengthening Xiaomi's flagship strategy for 2026. The flagship line of Xiaomi Xiaomi 17, which bega... Read More


Testing Times : A Test Pilot Looks Back

New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- India has long had the distinction of training its own experimental test pilots (and engineers), the only country outside the West to do so. Perspective planning by some of India... Read More


The Verdict of Democracy and Internal Social Cohesion

New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- Apart from many strategic and military lessons thrown up by the 1971 War, a few brutal political truths also are more than apparent. Firstly, from electoral verdicts, whichever p... Read More


Intelligence: A Force Multiplier

New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- The truism is that the availability of credible and timely intelligence for a nation's statecraft and military planning is unquestionable. However, the significant aspect of inte... Read More


Rafiqui and Shabaz in Pakistan? Nope!

New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- On 6 October 2025 an IAF C-130J and an An-32 departed from Agra using call signs named after Pakistani airbases! Post Operation Sindoor, no rest for the PAF! Next level trolling?... Read More