INDIAN AIR FORCE

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HAQIQAT ALI NIFTNIFT- Hyderabad

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Part of Ministry of Defence Indian Armed Forces Headquarters New Delhi, India Motto "Touch the Sky with Glory" Colour Navy blue, Sky blue& White

Anniversaries Air Force Day: 8th October Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik Battle honours Param Vir Chakra

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Responsible to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict. Officially established on 8 October 1932 as an auxiliary air force of the Indian Empire and the prefix Royal was added in 1945 in recognition of its services during World War II  After India achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, the Royal Indian Air Forceserved the Union of India with the prefix being dropped when India became a republic in 1950.
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The President of India serves as the Commander-in-Chiefof the IAF. With strength of approximately 170,000 personnel and 1,300 aircraft, the Indian Air Force is the world's fourth largest air force after the United States Air Force, Russian Air Force and China's People's Liberation Army Air Force.
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Since independence, the IAF has been involved in 4 wars with Pakistan and one with the People's Republic of China. Other major operations undertaken by the IAF include Operation Vijay - the invasion of Goa, Operation Meghdoot-capture of Siachen Glacier etc. Apart from conflicts, the IAF has been an active participant in United Nations peacekeeping missions.
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Combat Aircrafts of the Indian Air Force

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Fighter and multi-role combat aircraft.

The fighter aircraft in the IAF inventory are the primary means to achieve and maintain air supremacy over the battle field. Strike, attack and close support aircraft. These are military aircraft designed to attack targets on the ground. Example sukhoi 30 mki, mig 29.
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Tanker aircraft
These aircraft are used for aerial refueling which allows IAF aircraft to remain airborne for longer periods, hence enhancing their effective range. Example :- IL-78 MKI
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IL-78MKI refuels 2 Su-30MKI IAF Fighter planes

Transport aircraft Transport aircraft are typically used to deliver troops, weapons, supplies and other military equipment to the IAF field of operations. Exampl:- boeing 737.

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IAF Il-78MKI

boeing 737

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Training aircraft
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Used to give trainings to the air force cadets at AIR FORCE ACADEMY Hyderabad as well as NDA Pune..

IAF BAE Hawk Mk 132

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Sukhoi 30 MKI

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Sukhoi 30 MKI
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Long-range, high-endurance. Heavy-class Air Dominance Fighter. Multi mission capabilities Front line fighter aircraft Originally manufactured by the Soviet Union.
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Equipped with a 30 mm gun and a range of missiles, rockets, and bombs mounted externally on ten hard points. Deep penetration strike aircraft. The aircraft's infra-red search and track system, laser rangefinder, radar, and helmet mounted target designator provide detection, tracking, and attack capability.
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MiG-29
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The MiG-29 is produced by the Moscow Aircraft Production Organization (MAPO). The mission of the MiG-29 is to destroy hostile air targets within radar coverage limits. Also to destroy ground targets using unguided weapons in visual flight conditions.
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The engines provide a maximum speed of 2,400 km/hour at altitude and 1,500 km/hour near the ground. The maximum range at altitude is 1,500 km and 700 km near the ground. The MiG-29 fighter is equipped with seven external hardpoints for air-to-air missiles, air bombs and unguided rockets.

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The aircraft can carry: Up to two air-to-air medium range missiles. A maximum of six air-to-air short range missiles. Up to four pods of unguided rockets. Air bombs weighing up to 3,000 kg A 30 mm built-in aircraft gun with 150 rounds of ammunition.
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Mirage 2000 series

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Mirage 2000 series The Mirage 2000 is a multirole combat fighter by Dassault Aviation of France. Carry a range of air-to-surface missiles and weapons including laser guided bombs. A Dynamics Armat anti-radar missile, Aerospatiale AM39 Exocet antiship missile, Dynamics rocket launchers, Apache stand-off weapon, and the stealthy cruise missile, SCALP.
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Mirage 2000 is equipped with a multimode RDY doppler radar developed by Thomson-CSF. The RDY radar provides multi-targeting capability in the air defence role and the radar also has look down/shoot down mode of operation. The radar can simultaneously detect up to 24 targets and carry out track while scan on the eight highest priority threats
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MiG-23/27
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MiG-23/27 Manufactured by the Moscow Aircraft Production Organization MiG and the Irkutsk Aircraft Production Association Joint Stock Company. The primary mission of the aircraft is the destruction of moving and stationary, fixed and mobile ground targets including hardened targets. The aircraft carries three types of air-to-surface missile: the Kh-23M, the Kh-25ML(MP), and the Kh- 29L(T).

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The aircraft can carry two types of controlled air bombs, the KAB-500L laser guided bomb and KAB- 500KR television guided bomb which are supplied by the Region State Research and Production Enterprise in Moscow. The KAB-500L has semi-active laser homing, weighs 525 kg is armed with a 380 kg high explosive warhead The aircraft has a built-in gun, the 30 mm Sh6-30 gun with 260 rounds of ammunition
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The aircraft is capable of a maximum speed of 1,800 km/hr at altitude and 1,250 km/hr with a normal mission missile payload flying at low altitude. With high altitude flight the aircraft's operational range is 2,100 kilometres, while low level flight gives an operational range of 1,080 kilometres. The aircraft is rated for a maximum g loading of 7g.
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The aircraft can be based on second category airfields and operate from unpaved runways with a soil strength of 8 kg per square cm.

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MiG 21
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MiG 21
The MiG-21 jet fighter was a continuation of Soviet jet fighters, starting with the subsonic MiG-15 and MiG-17, and the supersonic MiG-19. A number of experimental Mach 2 Soviet designs were based on nose intakes with either swept-back wings, such as the Sukhoi Su-7, or tailed deltas, of which the MiG-21 would be the most successful.
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MiG-21 had a short range The MiG-21 was the first successful Soviet aircraft combining fighter and interceptor characteristics in a single aircraft. It was a lightweight fighter, achieving Mach 2 with a relatively low-powered afterburning turbojet

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