Mawya Sudan has become the first woman fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF) from Rajouri district. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Hailing from the village of Lamberi, of Border Tehsil of Nowshera in Rajouri, she commissioned into the IAF as Flying Officer. Mawya has become the 12th woman officer and first from Rajouri […]
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The Suryakiran aerobatic display team of the Indian Air Force (IAF), which has enthralled crowds across the country with their hair-raising manoeuvres with their aircraft in red and white, has just completed 25 years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 One of the few nine aircraft display teams in the world and the only one in
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Squadron Leader Aashritha V Olety is the first and only woman in the IAF qualified for the role, and as a flight test engineer. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Olety, a native of Karnataka, has graduated as part of the 43rd Flight Test Course after completing a one-year course at the pilot school. Excluding the
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Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh is set to become the first woman fighter pilot of India to fly the Rafale combat aircraft. She hails from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi and commissioned into the Indian Air Force (IAF) in the year 2017 as part of the second batch of women fighter pilots. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points
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Indian Air Force (IAF) has received its first batch (5 out of 36) of French Rafale aviation combat aircraft at Ambala Air base (Haryana). The Rafales are India’s first major acquisition of fighter planes in 23 years after the Sukhoi jets were imported from Russia. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Equipped with a wide
Recently, Boeing India has handed over the last of the five AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to the Indian Air Force (IAF), completing the contract for 22 Apaches. The Apaches were deployed at the Leh airbase as part of the forward movement of assets, amid the stand-off with China in Ladakh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020
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The Defence Acquisition Council has approved deals worth ₹38,900 crore. This includes procurement of 21 MiG-29 fighter jets for the Indian Air Force (IAF), upgrade of 59 of them and acquirement of 12 Su-30 MKI aircraft. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The 21 MiG-29s had been partially manufactured by Russia for an unfulfilled order
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The Indian Air Force has designed, developed and inducted an Airborne Rescue Pod for Isolated Transportation (ARPIT). This pod will be utilised for evacuation of critical patients with infectious diseases including COVID-19 from high altitude area, isolated and remote places. The prototype is in line with Atmanirbhar Bharat and hence only indigenous materials have been
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The Indian Air Force will operationalise its No.18 Squadron at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu on May 27, equipping it with the fourth generation LCA Tejas aircraft. No.18 Squadron is equipped with the fourth generation LCA Tejas FOC (final operation clearance) aircraft. It will be the second IAF Squadron to fly Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas.
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Indian Air Force inducted the Sukhoi-30MKI fighter aircraft at Thanjavur airbase equipped with ‘special weapon’ BrahMos supersonic cruise missile that will manage the requirements in the Indian Ocean. The decision to deploy the Su-30 MKI at Thanjavur was taken due to its strategic location. The integration of the air-launched version of the BrahMos missile with
