{"id":353339,"date":"2020-05-26T12:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T06:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=353339"},"modified":"2020-05-26T13:07:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T07:37:44","slug":"iaf-to-operationalise-no-18-squadron-at-coimbatore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-to-operationalise-no-18-squadron-at-coimbatore\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF to operationalise No.18 Squadron at Coimbatore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) will operationalise its No.18 Squadron at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu on May 27, equipping it with the fourth generation LCA Tejas aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>A PIB (Defence Wing) release here said IAF chief, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria will operationalise the squadron \u201cFlying Bullets\u201d at the Sulur Air Force Station near Coimbatore on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Squadron will be equipped with LCA Tejas FOC (final operation clearance) aircraft and will be the second IAF Squadron to fly LCA Tejas,\u201d after the 45 Squadron based at Coimbatore, it said. <\/p>\n<p>The No.18 Squadron, formed in 1965 with the motto \u201cTeevra aur Nirbhaya\u201d meaning \u201cSwift and Fearless,\u201d was earlier flying MiG 27 aircraft. The Squadron \u201cactively participated\u201d in the 1971 war with Pakistan and was decorated with the highest gallantry award Param Vir Chakra awarded to Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon posthumously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) will operationalise its No.18 Squadron at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu on May 27, equipping it with the fourth generation LCA Tejas aircraft. A PIB (Defence Wing) release here said IAF chief, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria will operationalise the squadron \u201cFlying Bullets\u201d at the Sulur Air Force Station near Coimbatore on Wednesday. \u201cThe Squadron will be equipped with LCA Tejas FOC (final operation clearance) aircraft and will be the second IAF Squadron to fly LCA Tejas,\u201d after the 45 Squadron based at Coimbatore, it said. The No.18 Squadron, formed in 1965 with the motto \u201cTeevra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}