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On January 2 2016, 4 militants belonging to Islamic terrorist United Jihad Council [5] attacked the Indian Air Force 's Pathankot Airbase, part of its Western Air Command . Four attackers and two security forces personnel were killed in the initial battle, with an additional security force member dying from injuries hours later.
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Pakistani Army Position, MG1A3 AA, 1965 War. This war started following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was designed to infiltrate forces into Jammu and Kashmir to precipitate an insurgency against rule by India. India retaliated by launching a full-scale military attack on West Pakistan.
Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme. The Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme is an initiative to develop and deploy a multi-layered ballistic missile defence system to protect India from ballistic missile attacks. It was launched in 2000 after Kargil War by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. [1]
The Battle of Longewala (4–7 December 1971) was one of the first major engagements in the western sector during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, fought between assaulting Pakistani forces and Indian defenders at the Indian border post of Longewala, in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan. The battle was fought between 120 Indian soldiers accompanied ...
The 2014–2015 India–Pakistan border skirmishes were a series of armed clashes and exchanges of gunfire between the Indian Border Security Force and the Pakistan Rangers: the paramilitary gendarmerie forces of both nations, responsible for patrolling the India-Pakistan border) along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region and the borders of the Punjab.
The Mikoyan MiG-27 ( Russian: Микоян МиГ-27; NATO reporting name: Flogger-D/J) was a variable-sweep ground-attack aircraft, originally built by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union and later licence-produced in India by Hindustan Aeronautics as the Bahadur ("Valiant"). It is based on the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 ...
India and Pakistan qualified for the first semi-final of the tournament and the Indian government invited the Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to watch the match along with his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh. The second match of the series, Kolkata, January 2013. India and Pakistan during the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy.
The Garud Commando Force is the special forces unit of the Indian Air Force. It was formed in February 2004 and has a current strength of over 1500 personnel. [1] [2] [3] The unit derives its name from Garuda, a Hindu deity. Garud forces are tasked with the protection of critical Air Force bases and installations, search and rescue, and ...