Using IMINT to look at how the IAF is trying to modernize its training capability. IAF has built 2 simulator units provided by Alpha Design Technologies at Sarsawa & Adampur Airbases to train its pilots on the Mig-29UPG and the Mi-17V5s respectively.
Post-Balakot India seeks to bolster its airspace defense along the LOC following the successful retaliatory airstrikes carried out by PAF targeting Indian Army garrisons in Feb 2019. The IAF has deployed a SA-3 battery north of the Pathankot.
The IAF will officially induct the first serial production MRSAM, the prototype battery of MRSAM is already deployed since a year at Sri nagar Airbase. We had also revealed before that BDL had started the integration of several IAF MRSAM batteries at Hyderabad.
Indian Airforce had demonstrated a landing by a C-130J & a Mig-29 at a recently completed 3km long Emergency Landing Runway attached next to a 2 Lane Highway near Barmer , Rajasthan.
The Emergency runway is located a distance of 50km from the India-Pakistan border.
At IAF Amritsar Airbase which in 2021 has received a pair of Akash Batteries making it the first Forward Air base in the northern India region along the Pak Border to be equipped with Akash.
An IACCS (Integrated Air Command & Control System) node.
Overlooked by IAF's Central Command shows Indian Air Force desire to guarantee survival & continue C&C functions in case of a conventional/non conventional strike.