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title: "Top Amazing Facts about Indian Air Force"  
description: "The Indian Air Force started with only 25 soldiers, today has more than one and a half lakh of them. Here's some facts about Indian Air Force"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-28  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1429/top-amazing-facts-about-indian-air-force  
category: "defence"  
tags: ["Air force", "defence", "Indian Air Force", "facts"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Top Amazing Facts about Indian Air Force

![Top Amazing Facts about Indian Air Force](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0f493117-0c42-4cfa-82c3-6647eb56bc3f/images/d8f636e6-7cb6-4660-93ba-a5fdd67be028.jpeg) ![Top Amazing Facts about Indian Air Force](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0f493117-0c42-4cfa-82c3-6647eb56bc3f/images/02e0b220-35a9-46f6-99f1-51e3bb1cc584.jpeg) Indian Air Force was established on 8 October 1932 as an auxiliary air force of the British Empire. ![Top Amazing Facts about Indian Air Force](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0f493117-0c42-4cfa-82c3-6647eb56bc3f/images/e09ea378-bd87-4f70-88d1-3fe52fbec890.jpeg) Indian Airforce Currently Operates 3 Beriev A-50 Phalcon AEWC (Airborne early warning and control) aircrafts ![Top Amazing Facts about Indian Air Force](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0f493117-0c42-4cfa-82c3-6647eb56bc3f/images/18258504-c36e-4482-80e6-80e8c3eaac26.jpeg) The Indian Air Force’s primary air superiority fighter is the Sukhoi Su-30MKI ![Top Amazing Facts about Indian Air Force](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0f493117-0c42-4cfa-82c3-6647eb56bc3f/images/ee89dbd6-f2a0-4428-91cc-f3e272ec024d.jpeg) The Indian Air Force has a Special Forces unit known as ‘The Garud Commando Force ![Top Amazing Facts about Indian Air Force](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0f493117-0c42-4cfa-82c3-6647eb56bc3f/images/bde08323-2dff-436e-b3a7-f52720247b81.jpeg) Air Marshal Sir Thomas Walker Elmhirst was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Air Force. ![Top Amazing Facts about Indian Air Force](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0f493117-0c42-4cfa-82c3-6647eb56bc3f/images/e1b373ac-2bf4-4d4e-b857-cf2892865789.jpeg) The only Marshal of the Air Force, is Arjan Singh.

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