So, heli-lifting is the only option for troop transfer, logistics operations, heavy weapons, sensitive equipments apart from combat operations.
After Kargil war in 1999, there has been focus on military capabilities in mountain terrains.
September 2019: AH-64E(I) Apache attack helicopter inducted into the IAF forward base Pathankot.
Helicopters help in carrying small teams and support the operations.
Helicopters act as force multiplier given to their ability to transport men and material at the right spot in the shortest possible time, both in war and counter-insurgency operations.
So, introduction Chinook and Apache helicopters are expected to enhance the secutiry of India.
Established in April 1918, it is the oldest air forces in the world.
RAF also boasts of highly trained officials who are well-versed with the use of these weapons.
German Air Force is referred to as Luftwaffe.
It has millions of trained air force officials and lacs of aircrafts.
Russian Air Force was established in 1991-92 and emerged as one of the most powerful air forces in the world soon after.
The Russian air force officials are well trained in handling the aircraft weapons.
As a nation which was still bristling over the bloody Pulwama attack, thanks to the Indian Air Force, the ‘Josh’ has come back.
In an early dawn operation, in a matter of less than an hour, the Indian Air Force avenged the Pulwama massacre by bombing the terror training camps and hideouts in PoK and Pakistan resulting in a large number of casualties.
As a responsible power, India has responded through conventional military means to terror tactics of terrorists and their Pakistani backers.
Although the timing denotes revenge, given that there were solid intelligence inputs about imminent and large-scale suicide attacks by JEM, it was a non-military pre-emptive action specifically targeted at JEM camps.
Balakot the biggest training camp of JEM – run by Maulana Yusuf Azhar, brother-in-law of Massod Azhar – has been bombed out of existence with a large no of terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jehadis ending up as casualties.
For those doubting the operation in Balakot in Khyber Paktunkhwa, defence experts have made it clear that the given the range of our attack capabilities, the Indian air force could well have crossed the borders of Pakistan and launched from afar or even beyond visual range.
