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India News: NEW DELHI: Three more French-origin Rafale fighters are slated to touch down in India, after mid-air refueling by tankers of France and UAE, on Wednes.
3 Rafales were refueled in mid-air by Airbus MRTT tankers of the UAE Air Force, in yet another indication of close military ties with the Gulf country
NEW DELHI: Three more Rafale fighters touched down in India from France on Wednesday night, which will add to the 11 omni-role jets already been inducted by the IAF.
The three Rafales were refueled in mid-air by Airbus MRTT tankers of the UAE Air Force, in yet another indication of close military ties with the Gulf country, during their over 7,000-km flight to India.
Another five Rafales will land in India towards end-April. The IAF will get all the 36 twin-engine Rafales, contracted under the Rs 59,000 crore deal inked with France in September 2016, by next year.
The 101 `Falcons’ Squadronat Hasimara airbase is slated to get the second lot of 18 Rafales under the Rs 59,000 crore deal inked with France for 36 of the omni-role jets in September 2016, as was reported earlier by TOI.
Group Captain Singh, incidentally, was conferred the nation’s third-highest peacetime gallantry medal, the Shaurya Chakra, for displaying exceptional courage in landing a MiG-21 ‘Bison’ despite the critical emergency of “an engine flameout” during a practice interception sortie in September 2008. Group Captain Singh had led the “main” Rafale induction team of pilots, flight engineers and technicians in France. Group Captains Singh and Kataria were also among the pilots who had flown the first five Rafales to Ambala in July last year. The Rafales were formally inducted into the IAF at a ceremony in Ambala the following September.
Why the Display of IAF s Machismo on the Balakot Strike Anniversary Was Uncalled For Brashly brandishing our achievements, merely to publicly boost ourselves and publicise them for other unstated reasons is avoidable,â a two-star IAF officer said.
Precision strike carried out by Mirage 2000s against a dummy target by the squadron that carried out the Balakot air strike on February 26, 2019, on the occasion of its second anniversary, on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. Photo: PTI
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Chandigarh: The Indian Air Forceâs (IAFâs) much publicised celebration over the weekend of the Balakot strike two years ago against an alleged Pakistani terror training camp in the countryâs north-west, was an âavoidable excessâ, said senior serving and retired fighter pilots.