Akash Ganga Indian Air Force Sky Diving Team

Akash Ganga is the 124 member Sky diving team of the

Indian Air Force The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. Its complement of personnel and aircraft assets ranks third amongst the air forces of the world. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial w ...

. It was created in August 1987. Akash Ganga can be roughly translated in Hindi as "The

Ganga The Ganges ( ) (in India: Ganga ( ); in Bangladesh: Padma ( )). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river to which India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China are the riparian states." is ...

of the sky", an ancient Hindi name for the Milky Way as viewed from the Earth.

Formation

Akasha Ganga was started in the 1970s as practice to prepare for war. Its usage in the Agra Air Force Station began in 1987. The Akash Ganga is made up of teachers from the Paratrooper Training School.Vayu Sakti
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References

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