Showcasing its precision strike capabilities during day and night, Indian Air Force on Sunday carried out a massive fire power blitzkrieg using its frontline aircraft such as SU-30 MKI, Mirage-2000, MIG 27 and MIG 29, at the Pokhran ranges in Rajasthan.

Suggesting that politicking was hampering defence requirements, IAF Vice Chief Air Marshal P K Barbora on Thursday said private industry's participation be increased in the defence sector and India should be "bold enough" to allow more FDI in the area.

Top IAF commanders on Wednesday reviewed the force's operational readiness, new acquisitions and replacement of ageing equipment, apart from its rapid strides in building capabilities in net-centric operations and the entire spectrum of warfare.

The Indian Air Force is consolidating its MiG-29 presence in Adampur, situated along the western border with Pakistan. IAF plans to station all its three MiG-29 squadrons there.

The Indian Air Force on Monday said none of its senior officers was made to part with sensitive information by a foreign embassy official posing as a Defence Ministry joint secretary.

The bodies of 13 defence personnel killed in Tuesday's AN-32 aircraft crash in Arunachal Pradesh were being airlifted on Thursday from Tato in Arunachal to Jorhat in Assam, IAF sources said.

A transport aircraft of Indian Air Force with six air crew, including a wing commander, and as many civilians on Tuesday went missing after taking off from Mechuka in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh and is feared to have crashed.

An investigation team of Indian Air Force has recovered the black box of Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet that crashed near Rajmathi village here on Thursday killing a pilot.

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

After three decades of "formidable" service with the IAF, the Russian-made MiG-23BN combat fighter aircraft on Friday was phased out at a ceremony at the airbase in Halwara.

Asia's biennial international air show near Bangalore turned into a carnival on Sunday with about 80,000 visitors flocking the venue for a glimpse of the magnificent flying machines and assorted aerospace products and technologies.

A local farmer Dost Ali has filed a complaint with Mohangarh police station, around 65 kms from Jaisalmer, alleging that a bomb was dropped on a five bigha field owned by him near the IAF's firing range close to the Indo-Pak border, police said.

The row over who is responsible for the near-miss involving a Presidential chopper and a civilian plane in Mumbai escalated on Wednesday with IAF chief Fali H Major saying his pilots were not to be blamed while the Civil Aviation ministry asserted it would be "premature" to conclude anything without a probe finding.

The Indian Air Force has lost 18 MiG aircraft from its fighter fleet in the last three years.

India on Wednesday dismissed reports that it had put its Air Force on a state of "high alert" and said nothing unusual or extraordinary has been done.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is facing an acute shortage of efficient pilots after failing miserably to impart quality training, a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General has revealed.

With the ethos of the armed forces being overly male, it will take some more time till Indian women don the uniform and the gear of a fighter pilot and fly the combat aircraft for the country's defence.

India and France on Tuesday agreed to bolster bilateral defence ties by working on joint development of quick reaction short range surface-to-air missiles and concluding a crucial deal on upgradation of IAF's frontline Mirage 2000 fighters.