I have many reasons to write in memory of the venerated Air Marshal Asghar Khan — a protégé of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, he was my role model from the age of 19 when I joined the Royal Pakistan Air Force (RPAF) in 1952...
”I was, from that day, hooked to the idea of becoming a fighter pilot and I chased that dream with resolve...
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman visited the headquarters of People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) China on Monday...
The air chief was given a briefing on the working of PLAAF...
The air force of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been ordered “not to escalate” a civil aviation dispute with regional rival Qatar, a military official said on Tuesday...
The massive hunt for an Indian Air Force plane that went missing in stormy monsoon weather over the Bay of Bengal on Friday with 29 people on board dragged into a third day on Sunday...
Air Force and Navy officials said the search was continuing but no signs of any wreckage had so far been found...
The search for an Indian air force (IAF) plane with 13 people on board, which went missing on Monday near the border with China, entered its fourth day on Thursday, news agency ANI reported...
"A day earlier, Indian navy tweeted that it has deployed long-range aircraft using infra-red sensors to search dense forest...
WASHINGTON: Pakistan Air Force needs to retire 190 planes from its current fleet by 2020, senior officials told Dawn while commenting on a report that the country was seeking another batch of 10 F-16s from the United States...
Jane’s Defence Weekly reported this week that Pakistan would seek to purchase these additional planes from the United States if the current deal for eight of these fighter jets is successfully concluded...
PATHANKOT: An operation to secure a militant-hit Indian air base near the Pakistan border ended on Saturday with six Indian security men and four suspected gunmen killed, police said, after an assault that threatens to undermine the two countries' fragile peace process...
At least four gunmen alleged to be from Jaish-i-Mohammed group dressed in army uniforms infiltrated the Pathankot air base in northern Punjab state at around 3:30...
The Pakistan Air Force on Thursday conducted a ceremony at the Air Headquarter to commemorate the first anniversary of the Feb 27 'Operation Swift Retort' which resulted in the downing of two Indian planes that had violated Pakistani airspace...
Addressing the event Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan said that they were gathered today to commemorate "resounding victory" in 'Operation Swift Retort'...
KARACHI: Showing compassion for Master Abdullah Naveed, who is suffering from thalassemia, Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber made the boy’s lifetime dream come true by making him a pilot for one day at an operational base of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) here on Friday...
It was Abdullah Naveed’s dream to become a fighter pilot, which is also indicative of the traditional affiliation of the entire young...
The air raids against IS targets marked a dramatic hardening of Turkey's attitude towards the group...
The bombing raid was the first by the Turkish Air Force on IS since the extremists began their advance across Iraq and Syria in 2013, seizing control of swathes of territory right up to the Turkish border...
DELHI: Security agencies guarding Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport have been put on high alert following the Air Traffic Controls (ATC) 'regular spotting' of suspicious flying objects which appeared thrice in and around the airport on Friday morning, said a report published on Hindustan Times...
Earlier on Friday, the flying objects were first noticed by an air force officer, said the report...
SpaceX has launched the Air Force's super-secret space shuttle...
The two Air Force space planes have already logged a combined 5 years in orbit...
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) is ready as ever for the defence of the country, said Chief of Air Staff Sohail Aman at the culmination ceremony of the first ever multi-national counter-terrorism air exercise held at a PAF Operational Air Base...
The two-week-long exercise named ACES MEET-2017 started on October 16, in which contingents of Turkish Air Force and Royal Saudi Air Force also participated...
ISLAMABAD: In a first for any prime minister of Pakistan, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday participated in an exercise training mission aboard an F-16 aircraft as part of the elite No 9 multirole squadron...
It was during a visit to the newly established ‘Airpower Centre of Excellence’ at an operational airbase of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in Sargodha when the prime minister took part in the mission...
An Indian Air Force (IAF) Mi-17 helicopter crashed on Friday in the country's remote northeast bordering China, killing all seven crew members and passengers, an official said...
The air force helicopter took off from an army helipad in the area...