Sirsa Air Force Station
Sirsa Air Force Station  Sirsa Vayu Sena Chhawni सिरसा वायु सेना छावनी | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Owner | Indian Air Force | ||||||||||
| Operator | Western Air Command | ||||||||||
| Location | Sirsa, Haryana | ||||||||||
| Occupants | No. 21 Squadron IAF No. 15 Squadron IAF | ||||||||||
| Time zone | IST (UTC+05:30) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 198 m / 650 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 29°33′42″N 75°00′21″E / 29.56167°N 75.00583°E | ||||||||||
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  VISX Location of airport in India | |||||||||||
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Sirsa Air Force Station or Sirsa AFS (ICAO: VISX) is an Indian Air Force base under Western Air Command, located at Sirsa in the state of Haryana, India.[2]
History[]
1971 Indo-Pak war[]
In Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Pakistan Air Force launched a pre-emptive raid on 12 airforce stations,[3] including Sirsa station. Sirsa was hit by Sqn. Ldr. Alvi with bombs equipped with time-delayed fuses, damaging the runway heavily and forcing the runway to be closed for the rest of the night.[4] Dassault Mystère IV jets from Sirsa base pounded the Pakistan Army pitched against the Indian Army in the . Dassault Mystère also hit a train and destroyed 50 tanks on it between Okara and Sahiwal.
Units[]
It has No. 21 Squadron IAF of 45 Wing. Wing is an active air force combat formation. No. 15 Squadron IAF operating Su-30MKI is also based here.[5][6]
Originally the base was home to a squadron each of MiG-23s and MiG-27s, both single-engine fighters, of No. 21 Squadron IAF.[7]
See also[]
- Airports Authority of India
- Ambala Air Force Station
- Gurugram Air Force Station
- Hisar Military Station
- List of Armed Forces Hospitals In India
- List of highways in Haryana
- List of Indian Air Force bases
- Railway in Haryana
- Raja Nahar Singh Faridabad Air Force Logistics Station
References[]
- ^ a b World Airport Codes.
- ^ "Air Force Day Fly Past an Appeal". PIB, Ministry of Defence. 26 September 2006.
- ^ Om Prakash Maurya, 2017, Babu Jagjivan Ram.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Lalwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Indian Air Force to raise four more squadrons of Su-30 MKI fighter". 5 October 2012.
- ^ "IAF's top guns brave extreme Alaska". 11 May 2016.
- ^ No. 3 Squadron, Indian Air Force Bharat Rakshak
External links[]
- Video of the Surya Kiran Aerobatics Team (SKAT) during the Air Show at Sirsa Air Force Station.
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