Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit appointed next Indian Air Force chief
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Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit will become India’s next Chief of the Air Staff at the end of October, the Ministry of Defence announced Tuesday. He will succeed Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, who is due to retire on October 31.
Dixit currently serves as Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force. Commissioned into the fighter stream in December 1986, he is an experimental test pilot and qualified flying instructor with more than 3,500 hours on aircraft including the Mirage 2000, MiG variants, Jaguar, Tejas, Hawk, Kiran and IL-78.
During a career spanning nearly four decades, Dixit has served as Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Central Air Command and Deputy Chief of Air Staff. His other appointments have included Air Defence Commander of Southern Air Command and senior planning, projects and operational roles at Air Headquarters and South Western Air Command.
He re-equipped No. 9 Squadron with Mirage 2000 aircraft and later commanded a frontline fighter base in the Western Sector and a fighter training base in the Southern Sector. He has participated in operations including Safed Sagar, Rakshak and Sindoor.
Dixit has publicly advocated combining conventional aircraft with newer technologies such as drones and missiles, while emphasizing real-time surveillance in modern warfare.
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