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IAF should follow suit of US Air Force's grounding of C-130 Hercules fleet for flaw check to avoid danger to men, material
Bikram Vohra •The C-130 Hercules fleet with the United States Air Force has been temporarily grounded after a crack was discovered in the lower centre wing joint of an aircraft.
Upgraded BrahMos with 500-kilometre range ready; India becomes only country to integrate long-range missiles into fighter jets
•The upgraded version of the homegrown BrahMos missile with an enhanced range of up to 500 km is ready, the CEO of BrahMos Aerospace, Sudhir Kumar Mishra, has said
Pakistan falsely claimed downing Sukhoi-30 on 27 Feb to 'coverup' loss of F-16 aircraft, says defence ministry
•The Pakistani Air Force (PAF) carried out an unsuccessful aerial combat on 27 February as a retaliation to India's strike at a major terrorist training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror group in Pakistan's Balakot.
India has asked for time to evaluate Russia's Sukhoi upgradation offer: Rostec official
Ians •Russia has offered to upgrade its existing Su-30 fleet in India to make it "very close to" the fifth generation fighter, but India has asked for time to evaluate its strategy.
Sukhoi-30 jet: China ready to help India search for missing pilots
Ians •China said it is ready to help India, if it asks for assistance, in the search for the missing Sukhoi-30 fighter jet and two pilots after wreckage is found.
Missing Sukhoi fighter jet: Thick forest cover hampers search operations
Ians •Mountainous terrain and thick forest cover were posing a challenge to several teams, including airborne, searching for the Indian Air Force's missing Sukhoi-30 fighter jet on Thursday, two days after it disappeared with two pilots close to the China border.
Sukhoi fighter jet goes missing: A brief history of Indian Air Force plane crashes in Arunachal Pradesh
Fp Staff •On Tuesday, a Sukhoi SU-30 aircraft that took off from Tezpur's Salanibari Air Force station in Assam went missing.
IAF suspects missing Sukhoi Su-30 MKI could be around West Kameng district in Arunachal Pradesh
Fp Staff •A Sukhoi Su-30 MK1 aircraft of the Indian Air Force lost radio contact and went off-radar on Tuesday, reports said. The aircraft had taken off from the Tezpur Air Force station in Assam.
Sukhoi-30 crashes in Assam's Nagaon district, pilots bail out safely
Fp Staff •Both the pilots ejected safely and the aircraft crashed at Laokhowa near Tezpur.
Russian envoy blames 'cowboy' IAF pilots for Sukhoi crash, not technology
Fp Archives •Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin, quoting the report of a probe committee, said there was some problem in ejection of pilots' seats and suggested that it could be a human error.