The Sri Lankan Campaign

& other 1988 Operations ( Siachen, Maldives )


RELIEF : is evident on the faces of the pilots of the An-32s who had participated in the supply dropping mission in 1987. The Four An-32s were escorted by Mirage 2000s in what was basically a deliberate intrusion of the Sri Lankan Air Space,	India Used Mi-24 Gunships for the first time during the Chavakacheri battle in Jaffna, though at that time denied by India later the attack gunships were accepted as a standard part of the anti insurgency doctrine..


The Jungles of Vavuniya offer a surrealastic Background to an Mi-8 Helicopter on a troop carrying Mission.	The Mi-24 escorts a Mi-8 Helicopter. the Mi-8 too carried Rockets and support ordnance in a gunship role.

The An-12 s Swansong during the Abortive Maldives Coup. Il-76s of the IAF flew the 50th Para Bde from Agra to the Maldives to foil the coup attempt. here The An-12s are seen airlifting the troops out on the return trip.

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