At first, spectators were able to get an aerial view of the flypast as the Defense Ministry excluded stunning footage of the air show taken from the cockpits of some aircraft. Indian Air Force It had coordinated with public broadcaster Doordarshan to show the recorded in-flight video.
A spectacular bird’s eye view of various aircraft formations flying above the clouds was broadcast and also shown on large screens installed at the parade venue. Vintage, as well as modern aircraft such as Rafale, Sukhoi, Jaguar, Mi-17, Sarang, Apache and Dakota displayed various formations including Rahat, Meghna, Eklavya, Trishul. tricolor, Vijay and Amrit, over Central Vista.
The country’s first woman fighter pilot Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh, who is flying a multirole Rafale fighter, was part of the IAF’s tableau this time. She is the second woman fighter pilot to be a part of the IAF’s tableau. Last year, Flight Lieutenant Bhawana Kanth became the first woman fighter pilot to be a part of the parade.
Shivangi, who joined the Air Force in 2017 and hailed from Varanasi in UP, was flying MiG-21 Bison before joining the IAF’s elite Golden Arrow squadron of Rafale aircraft. The IAF was the first of the three wings to allow women officers into combat and had the highest percentage of women officers.
The flypast began with the ‘Dhwaj’ formation with four Mi-17 aircraft, followed by the ‘Rudra’ and ‘Rahat’ formations with four and five Advanced Light Helicopters (ALHs) respectively. This was followed by the formation of Tangail, in which a Dakota and two Dorniers were seen flying. vic Build. It was a tribute to the Tangail airdrop operation of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The Tangel formation was followed by the Tran formation and Eye formation. This was followed by the Vinash Formation which consisted of five Rafale aircraft and was followed by the Baz and Trishul formations.
In a tweet, Defense Ministry’s principal spokesperson A Bharat Bhushan Babu said, “Cockpit view of the Falcon formation consisting of 1 Rafale, 2 Jaguars, 2 MiG-29 UPGs, 2 Su-30 Mi ACs in seven AC ‘arrowhead’ formations who are flying at 300m AOL.”
In the tricolor formation, the five sarongs (ALH) took off in the tricolor streaming ladder formation followed by the Varuna formation. In the nectar creation, 17 Jaguar aircraft made a figure of 75 to mark the 75th year of independence or the ‘Amrit Festival of Independence’.
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