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No. 9 Squadron
No. 9 Squadron
Active	4 January 1944 - Present
Country	Republic of India
Branch	Indian Air Force
Role	Fighter
Garrison/HQ	Gwalior AFS
Nickname(s)	"Wolfpack"
Motto(s)	Sahase Wasati Jayashrih; In Courage resides Victory
Aircraft flown
Fighter	Dassault Mirage 2000H/TH

Revision as of 05:24, 20 June 2022

No. 9 Squadron (Wolfpack) is a fighter squadron and is equipped with Mirage 2000 and based at Gwalior AFS under Central Air Command.^[1]

History

The No. 9 Squadron was formed after the partition of British Sub Continent. The original No. 9 Squadron was handed over to Pakistan as the No.9 Squadron Griffins.

Assignments

Aircraft


Aircraft	From	To	Air Base
Pre-Independence (1944–47)
Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC	February 1944	May 1945	Lahore^[2]
Harvard IIB	June 1945	September 1947	Chittagong
Supermarine Spitfire VIII	June 1945	December 1946
Supermarine Spitfire XIV	February 1946	July 1947
Hawker Tempest II	July 1947	September 1947
Post-Independence (1947–Present)
Folland Gnat I	April 1964	March 1978
HAL Ajeet	April 1978	June 1987
MIG-27	October 1987	January 2003
Dassault Mirage 2000H	January 2004	Present	AFS Gwalior

References

↑ "Squadrons and Helicopter Units". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
↑ "No.9 Squadron Wolfpack". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 22 June 2021.

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[BRakshak-1] "Squadrons and Helicopter Units". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 3 December 2015.

[sq9-2] "No.9 Squadron Wolfpack". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 22 June 2021.

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 ==History==
-No. 9 Squadron was formed at [[Lahore]] on 3 January [[1944 in aviation|1944]] under the command of [[Squadron Leader]] A. W. Ridler of the [[Royal Air Force]]. In April 1944 they were moved to [[Hathazari Upazila|Hathazari]] in [[Chittagong]] to take part in the [[Burma Campaign]].
+The No. 9 Squadron was formed after the partition of British Sub Continent.
+The original No. 9 Squadron was handed over to Pakistan as the [[No.9 Squadron (Pakistan Air Force)|No.9 Squadron Griffins]].
-Ridler handed over the squadron to Kenneth A. Perkin in March 1944 who commanded this squadron until November 1944. Sqn Ldr Dennis A. Adams (1913-1995) then commanded the Squadron from 6 November 1944 to 27 August 1945.
 ===Assignments===
-*[[Burma Campaign]]
+*[[Burma
 *[[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]]
 *[[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]
+*[[Operation Safed Sagar]] - [[Kargil War |Kargil War (Indo-Pak War of 1999)]]
 *[[2019 Balakot airstrike|Balakot Strike 2019]]
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 | [[HAL Ajeet]] || April 1978 || June 1987 ||
 |-
-| [[MiG-23|MiG-23 UB]] || October 1987 || January 2003 ||
+| [[MiG-23|MIG-27]] || October 1987 || January 2003 ||
 |-
 | [[Dassault Mirage 2000|Dassault Mirage 2000H]]  || January 2004 || Present || [[Gwalior Airport|AFS Gwalior]]