Country Republic of India Garrison/HQ Halwara AFS | Branch Indian Air Force Nickname(s) "Desert Tigers" | |
Active 23 December 1957 - Present Role Close Air Support
Air Defence | ||
No. 220 Squadron (Desert Tigers) is a fighter squadron and is equipped with Su-30MKI and based at Halwara Air Force Station.
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History
From its birth until just short of the Indo-Pak war of 1965, the role of the squadron was Operational Conversion onto Vampire aircraft of the freshly commissioned pilots. The squadron, later re-equipped with the Indigenous HF-24 Marut in April 1969 and flew the Marut in the 1971 Indo-Pak War. In June 1981, the squadron converted onto the MiG-23BN.
IAF had disbanded the 220 Squadron earlier because of very old aircraft, but resurrected that with the induction of the SU 30 MKIs on 25 September 2012. They received the President's standards at Halwara AFS on 20 September 2013.
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No. 220 Squadron IAF Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA