No. 30 Squadron (Rhinos) is a fighter squadron and is equipped with
Su-30MKI
The Sukhoi Su-30MKI (NATO reporting name: Flanker-H) is a twinjet multirole air superiority fighter developed by Russia's Sukhoi and built under licence by India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force (IAF). A variant ...
and based at
Lohegaon Air Force Station
Pune Airport is a customs airport located approximately northeast of the historic centre of Pune in the state of Maharashtra, India. The airport is a civil enclave operated by the Airports Authority of India at the western side of Lohaga ...
as part of
South Western Air Command
Victory embraces the brave
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, battles= Atlantique incident, Bhuj earthquake relief, 2001, Gujarat flood relief, 2005
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, commander1= Air Marshal Vikram Singh, VSM
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It was the Presidential standards on 10 November 2016.
Assignments
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Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 or the Second Kashmir War was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between Pakistan and India. The conflict began following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was d ...
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Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the
Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 Decem ...
Aircraft
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