Published 14:10 IST, November 15th 2021

IAF's Tejas, Sarang display 'superior flying skills' at opening day of Dubai Air Show

The IAF on Sunday stated that the LCA Tejas & Sarang Helicopter Display Team have exhibited "Superior flying skills" on the opening day of the Dubai Air Show.

Reported by: Anwesha Majumdar
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Indian Air Force (IAF) on Sunday stated that  Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas and Sarang Helicopter Display Team have exhibited "Superior flying skills" on opening day of Dubai Air Show. Air show commenced on vember 14 and will continue till vember 18, Thursday. At Dubai's Al Maktoum airport, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum who is Crown Prince and Chairman of Executive Council of Dubai officially inaugurated  event.  

While flying across sky, Tejas demonstrated its exceptional flying abilities, agility, and simplicity of control, ANI reported. Highlighting ir performance in event, IAF took Twitter to express anticipation and stated, “Winter is here but we just turned up heat”. IAF furr stated that LCA Tejas, Suryakiran, as well as Sarang aerobatics team, put on a perfectly synchronised show. 

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IAF’s Tejas, Sarang & Suryakiran were introduced at Dubai Air show

Furrmore, on vember 9, vanced light helicopters (ALH) of Sarang Team, BAE Hawk 132 aircraft of Suryakiran Team, and three LCA Tejas aircraft were all introduced at show.  Sarang Helicopter Display Team gets ir title from Sanskrit word for peacock and operates Dhruv, an Indian-me vanced Light Helicopter (ALH). 

Sarang is first four-helicopter military demonstration squ around globe. team has performed risky stunts in Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Germany, United Kingdom, Bahrain, Sri Lanka, as well as Russia in past. crew at Dubai Air Show is led by Wing Commander Girish Komar. 

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In dition to this,  Suryakiran Aerobatic Team (SKAT) operates IAF's Hawk 132 aircraft that conducts a nine-plane aerobatic show, which has previously been performed in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, as well as China with Indian-me Kiran Mk II aircraft. team is led by Group Captain Aop Singh.  

Furr, Indian Air Force's indigeus Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas is led by Manish Tolani, Tejas' Unit Captain. Meanwhile, as per sources, earlier it was stated that IAF would operate beside aircraft from or nations, including Saudi Hawks, Russian Knights, as well as UAE's Al Fursan. 

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14:10 IST, November 15th 2021