Gurugram Air Force Station, of the

Indian Air Force The Indian Air Force (IAF) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the air force, air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during armed conflicts. It was officially established on 8 Octob ...

Western Air Command The Western Air Command (WAC) is the regional command of Indian Air Force headquartered in New Delhi. It is the largest and most important Air Command of the IAF, comprising sixteen Air Force Bases (AFBs), and is responsible for aerial defence of ...

, is located in

Gurugram Gurgaon (), officially named Gurugram (), is a satellite city of Delhi and administrative headquarters of Gurgaon district, located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest o ...

city in

Haryana Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...

state of India. It is located 28 km south of New Delhi.S Sridhara, 2016, Vertebrate Pests In Agriculture, Page 340

History

On 8 October 1932, the Indian Air Force was established in

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in South Asia. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another ...

as an auxiliary air force of

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...

, and adopted the Royal Air Force uniforms, badges, brevets and insignia. In 1948, first airstrip was built in Haryana when

Ambala Air Force Station The Ambala Air Force Station is an Indian Air Force base situated north of the urban Ambala Cantt area in Haryana, India. The Ambala Air Force Station is the home to the first batch of advance multirole fighter jet Dassault Rafales that have ...

was established following the independence of India. After the independence of India in 1947, an air force logistics base was established at Faridabad. The Western Air Command, of which Gurugram Air Force Logistics Station is a key component within the National Capital Region, has been the major operational command involved in most of the war fought by India, including the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947,

Sino-Indian War The Sino–Indian War, also known as the China–India War or the Indo–China War, was an armed conflict between China and India that took place from October to November 1962. It was a military escalation of the Sino–Indian border dispu ...

in 1962, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Indo-Pakistan War of 1971,

Operation Pawan Operation Pawan ( ''Kãryvãhi Pavan'', lit. "Operation Wind") was the code name assigned to the operation by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to take control of Jaffna from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), better known as the T ...

(1986) in Sri Lanka and

Operation Safed Sagar Operation Safed Sagar (, lit. "Operation White Ocean") was the code name assigned to the Indian Air Force's role in acting jointly with the Indian Army during the 1999 Kargil war that was aimed at flushing out regular and irregular troops o ...

during the 1999

Kargil War The Kargil War, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Ladakh, then part of the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir (state), Jammu and Kashmir and along the Line of Control (LoC). In In ...

, and the ongoing air logistics operations to supply troops deployed at

Siachen Glacier The Siachen Glacier is a glacier located in the eastern Karakoram range of the Himalayas, just northeast of the point NJ9842 where the Line of Control between India and Pakistan ends in northeastern Kashmir. At long, it is the longest glaci ...

Facilities

Information Fusion Centre

Indian Information Fusion Centre (IFC) of

Indian Navy The Indian Navy (IN) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the Navy, maritime and Amphibious warfare, amphibious branch of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy. The Chief of the Naval Staff (India), Chief ...

, collaborates with the Information Fusion Centre - Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR), to create the integrated multi-country platform on the vessels of interest in the IOR (Indian Ocean Region) by sharing the nonsensitive information with other IOR friendly partner nations. IFC is based at the Indian Navy's Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC) at Gurugram. IMAC is the single point centre on Indian Navy, linking all the coastal radar chains to generate a seamless real-time picture of the nearly 7,500 km coastline. The IFC-IOR can track and monitor 75,000-1.5 lakh shipping traffic in the region in real-time round the clock. India already has shipping information sharing agreement with 21 nations within IOR, of which 12 are already on IFC.Indian Navy launches Information Fusion Centre to boost maritime security
The Week, 22 Dec 2018. IMAC itself was opened in Gurugram in November 2014 as joint collaboration of Indian Navy,

Indian Coast Guard The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is a maritime law enforcement and search and rescue agency of India with jurisdiction over its territorial waters including its contiguous zone and Exclusive economic zone of India, exclusive economic zone. It was st ...

and

Bharat Electronics Limited Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) is an Indian Public Sector Undertakings in India, public sector aerospace and Military, defence Electronics, electronics company, headquartered in Bangalore. It primarily manufactures advanced electronic products ...

to improve coastal surveillance and to provide coastal security to avert like the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. It is staffed by the Navy under direction from the National Security Advisor. This fiber optic and satellite-links based network of 20 naval and 31 Coast Guard monitoring stations with 46 existing radars and 30 future planned radars as well as the automatic identification systems fitted on merchant ships, generates a real-time picture 7,500-km long coastline.Defence minister inaugurates Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC) in Gurgaon
GKToday.

Ammunition dump

The ammunition dump of IAF (28.488544, 77.040270) has restricted area of 300 meter within which no construction is allowed. There are many illegal construction within this restricted zone. Court had ordered these constructions to be removed. Also there has been rumours circulating that this zone of 300 meters will be extended to 600 or 900 meters. While the local politicians continue to make this an issue there is little outcome.
The Tribune.

References

External links