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The strength of the Indian Air Force (IAF) is inadequate, Air Chief Marshal PV Naik said on Wednesday.

Solar eclipse trackers on the ground were not be the only ones studying the spectacle as the IAF and astrophysicists conducted experiments and filmed the celestial event from a fighter jet and a transport aircraft.

An Indian Air Force training aircraft made an emergency landing in the fields of a Punjab village Monday following a technical snag in its engine, police said.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Wednesday began aerial reconnaissance to trace the transport aircraft with 13 on board that went missing over the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh and was feared to have crashed.

A squadron of the frontline combat aircraft Sukhoi 30-MKI would become operational in India's sensitive northeast next week, a strategic decision to move advanced assets close to the Chinese border, defence officials said today.

Long-range Sukhoi fighter jet aircraft, India's frontline war planes, have started flying again, nearly three weeks after they were confined to the hangars for checks following a crash.

A sophisticated Indian Air Force Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft on Thursday crashed near here, killing one of the two pilots. This is the first time that a Sukhoi-30 MKI, a frontline fighter plane, has crashed.

President Pratibha Patil today inducted the new state-of-the-art VVIP jets into the Indian Air Force before embarking on its maiden flight to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

In a big boost to India's surveillance capability, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is likely to receive the first of the three Israeli Phalcon Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) in the second half of May this year, almost a year and a half behind schedule.

When India's first manned space mission takes off, likely in 2017, it will have Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel on board.