What does IAF stand for?

As well as development and acceptance flights, HT001 was also a key component in the programme which saw Indian Air Force flying instructors training to teach student pilots on the Hawk.

An Indian air force Mi-17 helicopter has crashed in Doda district," a police spokesman said, adding one person was killed and three others on board are still missing.

Addressing the Air Force Commanders' Conference, Air Chief Marshal Naik said the Indian Air Force has made rapid strides towards attaining net centricity and has to be capable of dominating the entire spectrum of information, cyberspace and air space.

However, in a statement, Pakistan Information Minister Sherry Rehman said the Indian Air Force had told Pakistan the incursion was "inadvertent.

5-tonne aircraft will be available with 45 to be acquired by the Indian Air Force and nearly 100 by the Russian market.

com/IAF, "the most visited resource on the Indian Air Force on the Internet," according to the bookjacket) detail the operations of the Indian Air Force during the 1965 conflict with Pakistan, relying primarily on the remembrances of Indian military personnel in order to reconstruct the dogfights and air raids on the western front above and surrounding Jammu-Kashmir and on the border between India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

In World War II, it was the largest volunteer army in history, while the Royal Indian Air Force also played an important role.

Finally, an Indian Air Force helicopter managed to pluck them from the 11,000ft mountain.