The fourth helicopter needed spares to be made fully operational and the spares came from Russia, the place where they were manufactured.

Mukherjee also accorded 'Colours' to 28 Equipment Depot, the air armament stores division which "provides lethality" to fighter and bomber ...

The flypast by the Indian Air Force on the Republic Day parade will involve 38 aircraft, including 21 fighters, 12 helicopters and five tra...

The IAF's biggest load carrier Mi-26 helicopter landed at Kedarnath to give a push to restoration works at the Himalayan shrine.

A cheque of Rs 8.43 cr was handed over by IAF Chief Arup Raha to PM Narendra Modi at the 'At Home' function on the occasion of 82nd Air For...

The IAF undertook rescue and relief operations in a massive scale in both Kashmir and Jammu regions since floods hit the two regions.

The MI-26 will be operating ex-Awantipur in Kashmir and will prove to be very effective in flood relief, a defence release said here today.

With the government and AgustaWestland headed for arbitration, which could take at least two years, the MoD is examining different options.

The Defence Ministry today stepped up its efforts in the relief and rescue operations in flood-hit Uttarakhand where it deployed over 40 ai...

US defence major Boeing has won the deal to supply 15 heavy-lift helicopters to the Indian Air Force defeating its rival Russian Mi-26 in t...

The US is now all set to bag yet another mega Indian defence deal, with the iconic Boeing-manufactured Chinook heavy-lift helicopters.

Sources say the two Russian-origin Mi-17 1V helicopters carry advanced FLIR (forward-looking infrared) imaging systems and CCD (charge-coup...

After some setbacks, the armed forces are again pressing the throttle to achieve their aim of inducting around 900 helicopters in the comin...

India had in 2008 signed a deal with Russia to induct 80 Mi-17 V5 helicopters for strengthening its chopper fleet for relief ops.

There was no trace of the missing chopper carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four others for the third day today.

Even as the six foreign contenders in the race to bag the lucrative $10.4 billion project to supply 126 multi-role combat aircraft to IAF j...

As a part of its fleet expansion plans, budget carrier Jagson Airlines on Wednesday launched two new Mi-172 helicopters.