In 2019, Group Captain Abhinandan Varthaman (then a Wing Commander) of the No 51 squadron based in Srinagar, while flying a MiG-21 Bison, had downed a Pakistan Air Force F-16 aircraft.
Contract with HAL for additional 97 Tejas jets by year-end: IAF Chief tribuneindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tribuneindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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the indian air force is in the process of finalising a rs 1.15 lakh crore deal to procure an additional batch of 97 tejas mark-1a aircraft besides upgrading 84 sukhoi-30mki jets at a cost of rs 60,000
As the eastern Ladakh border row lingered on, Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari on Tuesday said that the IAF s operational plans are very dynamic and it will deal with challenges along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with better tactics, training and deployment of indigenously-built military hardware like mountain radars, long-range missiles and upgraded combat planes.