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India test-fires air launched version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missileThe missile was fired after the Su-30 MKI aircraft travelled for over three hours covering a "significantly long distance", the officials s...30 Oct, 2020, 11.28 PM IST- Why India is placing Su-30 fighter jets in South IndiaThe squadron in Thanjavur will keep in check China's fast-expanding strategic footprint in the Indian Ocean Region. Beijing is shoring up i...22 Jan, 2020, 10.09 AM IST
- CDS Rawat says difficult to predict war scenario with PakistanThe top general, who inducted the Sukhoi-30 MKI squadron here, was responding to a question about any possibility of a war emerging between...21 Jan, 2020, 10.24 AM IST
- Eye on China, South gets 1st Sukhoi squad with BrahMosIndia now has a new lethal weapons platform to keep a ‘strategic eye’ over the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), especially the Bay of Bengal, as ...20 Jan, 2020, 03.54 PM IST
- Rajnath Singh to inaugurate induction of Sukhoi fighter jet Su-30 squadronAt a press meet here, Air Marshal Amit Tiwari said this would be the second frontline fighter squadron of the Indian Air Force (IAF) to be ...16 Jan, 2020, 12.30 PM IST
- Ready to meet any contingency; Rafale jets, S-400 missiles will boost capabilities: IAF Chief"The IAF is ever prepared to meet any contingency that challenges the defence of our country. In the year gone by, IAF has continued to gro...09 Oct, 2018, 10.48 AM IST
- IAF to set up training base at KodikaraiIAF has already established a RADAR station at Kodiakarai for surveillance along the Palk Bay and Palk Strait.11 Jul, 2018, 02.11 PM IST
- Pakistan hires spies for 'Project Varsha'; India's naval base to house nuclear submarinesNIA, however, said Ansari and another spy, Arun Selvarajan – arrested in India in 2012 and 2014 respectively – recced and photographed nume...27 Mar, 2015, 02.50 PM IST
- After Army and Navy, IAF gears up for supersonic BrahMos missile punch on SukhoisA tactical or non-nuclear missile touted to be the best in its class in the world, with "nine times more kinetic energy than sub-sonic miss...10 Feb, 2014, 08.31 AM IST
- Air Chief NAK Browne reviews proposed first base for Tejas LCAIAF chief Browne reviewed the progress of the Sulur air base where the force is to deploy its first squadron of the indigenously- developed...18 Dec, 2013, 10.17 PM IST
- First Sukhoi fighter plane base in southern India inauguratedA full squadron of 16 to 18 Su-30MKI combat aircraft will be deployed at the base by the end of 2017-18, which will give India the capabili...27 May, 2013, 08.07 PM IST
- A K Antony inaugurates Sukhoi airbase in ThanjavurStrengthening India's presence over the Indian Ocean, Defence Minister A K Antony inaugurated the first fighter aircraft base here in south...27 May, 2013, 03.10 PM IST
- Antony to inaugurate Su-30 squadron at Thanjavur air baseDefence Minister A K Antony will tomorrow inaugurate an airbase here to house squadron of IAFs lethal Su-30 MKI combat aircraft.26 May, 2013, 01.17 PM IST
- India gets first Poseidon-8 I jet to keep watch over Indian Ocean regionThese sensor and radar-packed aircraft will be India’s “intelligent hawk eyes” over the IOR, which is increasingly getting militarized.15 May, 2013, 05.52 AM IST
- New Sukhoi base to guard southern India, Indian OceanA K Antony will inaugurate the new airbase at Thanjavur, which will eventually house a Sukhoi squadron after the requisite "tech-flight han...13 May, 2013, 11.30 AM IST
- IAF to raise four more squadrons of Su-30 MKI fighterIAF is all set to raise four more squadrons of Su-30 MKI fighter in the near future as it prepares to induct the tenth unit of the aircraft...05 Oct, 2012, 06.37 PM IST
- IAF chief N A K Browne reaches Jamnagar; inquiry team recovers flight data recordersAir Chief Marshal reached Jamnagar to reassure the pilots & technicians at the IAF airbase there which lost 9 personnel in a mid- air colli...31 Aug, 2012, 05.25 PM IST
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