Compilations of Third-Party Write-ups , Book Launches, Guest Lectures and News

Oct 2023

Guest Speaker: On the Heritage of Indian Air Force at the Indian Military Heritage Festival 2023 organised by The United Service Institution of India (USI).

Anchit Gupta at USI Military Heritage Festival

July 2023

Guest Lecture: Under the ‘Inspire History’ Project on the life of Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh at 5 Wing, Kalaikunda

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Guest Lecture: On the subject of ‘Risk & Reward – IAF History & Corporate adaptations’ at the annual Senior Air Staff Officers conference at Air Headquarters.

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Guest Lecture: The history behind the randomly located bases IAF inherited in 1947. Conducted by Color’s of Glory Foundation.


Guest Lecture: Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh Seminar on ‘Inspired Leadership’ at Air Force Academy Dundigal

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Editorial: Eyes in the Sky: How IAF secured its Air Dominance

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Book Launch: Indian Air Force in its Centennial Decade – Contribution to the historical chapter

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November 2022

Guest Lecture: Under the ‘Inspire History’ Project on the life of Baba Mehar Singh at Air Force Academy, Dundigal.

Anchit Gupta Updates, #IAFHistory

October 2022

Editorial: New weapon systems branch—How Air Force’s branches expanded and evolved from RAF to IAF


September 2022

Guest Podcast: Guest on the Blueskies Podcast on the subject of how “How the IAF got here”.


July 2022

Tête-à-tête: Meeting with the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari at the Air Headquarters.

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Editorial: How IAF’s hero became a villain

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June 2020

Editorial: IAF’s very own Top Gun School

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April 2022

Editorial: Suranjan Das, one of IAF’s first Experimental Test Pilots who evaluated all jets for 20 years


December 2021

Editorial: The National Cadet Corps and the IAF


October 2021

Editorial: Aizad Baksh Awan, the first IAF pilot to train Afghan Air Force cadets


September 2021

Editorial: Flight Lt SK Majumdar, IAF instructor who wrote the bible of helicopter operations


August 2021

Editorial: Gulf War to Vietnam to Balakot—role of air force offers lessons for theatre command planners

Editorial: The story of Jaswant Singh, the only Indian to have ever commanded a foreign Air Force


December 2020

Post: The Curious case of the missing “Tiger-one”


January 2020

Post: Sukhoi Strike missions during 1971 War.


November 2018

Post: Belly landing in a Gnat.


October 2018

Post: S-75 Dvina – India’s first Surface to Air Guided Weapon