India, Aug. 25 -- Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit took over as Vice Chief of the Air Staff, Indian Air Force on 1 July 2026. The Air Marshal was commissioned into the fighter stream of IAF on 6 December 1986. He is an alumnus of National Defence Academy, Defence Staff Service College (Bangladesh) and National Defence College with more than 3500 hours of flying. The Air Marshal has an extensive flying experience on various aircraft; to name a few; Mirage 2000, variants of MiG, HPT-32, An-32, Avro, Kiran, Jaguar, Il-78, Hawk and Tejas. He is an Experimental Test Pilot and a Qualified Flying Instructor. During his service career, spanning four decades, he has been actively involved in numerous operations and exercises viz Op-Safed Sagar, Op-Rakshak...