{"id":353535,"date":"2020-05-27T11:38:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T06:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=353535"},"modified":"2020-05-27T11:56:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T06:26:27","slug":"iafs-legendary-18-squadron-to-be-re-operationalised-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iafs-legendary-18-squadron-to-be-re-operationalised-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF&#8217;s legendary 18 Squadron to be re-operationalised on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Indian Air Force\u2019s 18 Squadron, which earned the nickname of Defenders of Kashmir Valley for being the first to land and operate from Srinagar, will be operationalised once again on Wednesday at Air Force Station Sulur near Coimbatore.<\/p>\n<p>The squadron actively participated in the 1971 war with Pakistan and was decorated with the highest gallantry award \u2018Param Vir Chakra\u2019 awarded to Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon posthumously. <\/p>\n<p>The Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, will operationalise 18 Squadron, also known as \u2018Flying Bullets\u2019. The squadron will be equipped with LCA Tejas FOC aircraft and will be the second IAF Squadron to fly LCA Tejas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Indian Air Force\u2019s 18 Squadron, which earned the nickname of Defenders of Kashmir Valley for being the first to land and operate from Srinagar, will be operationalised once again on Wednesday at Air Force Station Sulur near Coimbatore. The squadron actively participated in the 1971 war with Pakistan and was decorated with the highest gallantry award \u2018Param Vir Chakra\u2019 awarded to Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon posthumously. The Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, will operationalise 18 Squadron, also known as \u2018Flying Bullets\u2019. The squadron will be equipped with LCA Tejas FOC aircraft [&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-353535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353535","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=353535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}