Thread: Indian Air Force

What kind of role was played by Indian Air Force in the wars of 1965 and 1971?

Any special reason for this question?? Google it

Although there is an answer for this, i would like to know what everyone elses opinions are, therefore asked this question.

I don't remember, I was not born yet or too young at that time.

-F

Originally Posted by farce

I don't remember, I was not born yet or too young at that time.

-F

Me too..

@ Tanmaya

when you have something to ask like this then please share the details of it. Even if needed copy the content from google and paste it here and at the bottom give the source link also.

Only then you will get some proper reviews else this also will become chat & joke thread.

well kiran there is nothing really to explain, just your views on what you thought the role of Indian Air Force was in the wars between 1965 and 1971?

Even i wasnt born then!!

What i wanted to convince is post some details about that war and ask reviews, see now i really dont know what happened or anything about at that time, i am totally blank about it. So if you post some details all will read it (who are like me) and give their views thats all.

oh ok then, will do later on then!

The indian air force's crashing MIG 21s might have destroyed many enemies. :w00t:

Jagan's Indian Air Force Web Site

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Indian Air Force in 1965 war

Read any History book and there would be the answer

Originally Posted by Tanmaya

What kind of role was played by Indian Air Force in the wars of 1965 and 1971?

they flew the fighter planes and shot enemy planes. they also dropped
bombs on the chinese and pakistanis and bangladeshis...they probably
also dropped food packets on our troops in the mountains.,,

I remember myself as flying officer (in Last birth)i was given the task of hitting the radars of Porkis and eventually succeeded in it. Most of Porkis left out of their houses watching my thrill flight. I was also given the task of going inside Beijing and shooting a missile on Maotsetung's cabinet meeting. But i was hanged by the Chinese because it missed.

Originally Posted by mail2sc

But i was hanged by the Chinese because it missed.

Naturally.
Mao did not like failures and incompetents.

The Indian Air Force is was established in 1932 by the then British Raj and was named the RIF(Royal Indian Airforce) . When India became a republic the prefix Royal was dropped and it became the IAF (Indian Airforce).

It is the fourth largest Airforce in the whole word behind US , Russia and China. It has 730 combat aircrafts and 1700 non-combat aircrafts (Troop transport type)


In the 1962 Indo-China war IAF was ill prepared so it did not take much part in the war .


In the 1965 Indo-Pak war IAF fared much better , but lost a lot of aircrafts because of wrong strategy followed . Even though Indian aircrafts were old tech compared to Pakistan’s Indian pilots were better trained and so performed better than Pak’s . Most of India’s aircrafts were destroyed when they were parked in Airforce bases that were bombed by PAF (Pak Airforce)



The highlight of IAF’s efforts was the 1971 war. This was the time IAF high command realized the effectiveness of carrying out strategic bombing of vital military supplies of the enemy . It also achieved complete air superiority over both East Pakistan (Bangladesh) as well as West Pakistan . They bombed railway lines,roads,factories ,dams and oil supplies . Towards the end of the war, IAF's transport planes dropped leaflets over Dhaka urging the Pakistani forces to surrender, demoralizing Pakistani troops in East Pakistan (Bangladesh).



During the Kargil war Mirages were used successfully to disrupt Pakistan’s supplies . MIG-29s were also deployed in large numbers successfully forcing the Pak ground troops trying to cross the border to take a rain check .




Current Aircrafts of IAF (combat crafts)

SEPECAT Jaguar- AngloFrench – 3rd Generation Fighter craft
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 – Russian – 3rd generation
Mikoyan MiG-27 – Russian – 3rd Generation
Sukhoi Su-30 MKI-Russian-4.5th generation
Dassault Mirage 2000-French-4th generation
Mikoyan MiG-29-Russian-4.5th Generation

Aircrafts developed by India

HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) HF-24 Marut - 2nd Generation
HAL Tejas – 4.5th Generation fighter


Under development

Joint project with Russia

Sukhoi PAK FA – 5th Generation
Sukhoi/HAL FGFA – 5th Generation

Indian only

Medium Combat Aircraft – Unnamed 5th generationcraft




-Source

Combination of The History Channel , Nat Geo , Wikipedia and a host of other sites i dont even remember

Originally Posted by Tanmaya

wars of 1965 and 1971?

Originally Posted by farce

I was not born yet or too young at that time.

Farce was born after 1965 and he must be somewhere around 4-5 years in 1971:detective:

There is an OR there. So there are 4 combinations.

I was not born yet in 1965
I was too young in 1965
I wsa not born yet in 1971
I was too young in 1971

;-)

-F

thanks farce, we have enough confusion in IBF as it is... courtesy who/what is xxx threads