IAF Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria also operationalised No. 18 Squadron ‘Flying Bullets’ at the Sulur airbase.
Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria on May 27 flew the single-seater Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas at the Sulur Air Force Station in Tamil Nadu.
The Air Chief Marshal also operationalised No. 18 Squadron ‘Flying Bullets’ at the Sulur airbase. The Squadron will be equipped with indigenously developed Tejas FOC aircraft. It is the second IAF squadron to fly LCA Tejas.
IAF has reportedly inducted 16 weaponised Tejas jets into its combat fleet since June 2018.
The squadron was formed on April 15, 1965 and used to operate MIG-27 fighter jets. However, it was withdrawn from service in April 2016. It was resurrected on April 1.
#WATCH Air Force Chief RKS Bhadauria landing the LCA Tejas Aircraft after a sortie at the induction ceremony of the second squadron of the LCA Tejas fighters in Sulur, Tamil Nadu today. pic.twitter.com/WvFvhMstiw
— ANI (@ANI) May 27, 2020
