IAF 87th anniversary: India gets first Rafale, celebrates Balakot strike
IAF 87th anniversary: India gets first Rafale, celebrates Balakot strike Balakot hero Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was the star attraction as he flew past in a MiG-21 Bison fighter Current Affairs :As the Indian Air Force (IAF) commended its 87th commemoration on Tuesday, an unmistakable topic was the tasks of February 26, when Indian warrior flying machine assaulted the Balakot psychological oppressor preparing camp in Pakistan and skirmished with counter-assaulting Pakistan Air Force (PAF) contenders the following morning. Drawing loud acclaim from onlookers at Hindan Air Base outside Delhi was the “vindicator arrangement” in the fly-past, a three-flying machine development driven by Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman in his MiG-21 Bison contender, flanked by two Mirage 2000 warriors flown by pilots who had besieged Balakot. Varthaman was shot down and caught by the Pakistani military in that encounter, yet simply in the wake of shooting down a PAF F-16 warrior, ...