College of Air Warfare

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College of Air Warfare
Former names
  • School of Land and Air Warfare (SLAW)
  • Joint Air Warfare School (JAWS)
Mottoसंगच्छध्वम(Sanskrit)
Motto in English
United We Prepare
Type Defence Service Training Institute
War college
Established01 July 1959
Commandant Air Vice Marshal Manish Khanna AVSM , VM [1]
Location
Secunderabad
,
Telangana
,
India
Website Official Website

College of Air Warfare (CAW) is a defence service training institution of the Indian Air Force. The college conducts courses and programmes in the art of Joint Warfare, with special emphasis on employment of Air Power. The functional and the administrative control of the college is with the Training Command of the IAF. The current Commandant of the college is Air Vice Marshal Manish Khanna AVSM , VM

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History

The college was established on 1 July 1959 and was initially known as School of Land and Air Warfare (SLAW) situated at New Delhi. After receiving the approval from the President of India, SLAW moved to its present location in Secunderabad on 25 July 1959. Air Commodore K L Sondhi was the first Commandant. [2] The college was inaugurated by the then Minister of Defence, V. K. Krishna Menon formally, on 3 September 1959. [3] The School of Land Warfare was renamed as the Joint Air Warfare School (JAWS) on 25 November 1967, with the introduction of Naval aspects of warfare. It was renamed the "College of Air Warfare" in January 1976 after the IAF received sanction from the President on 9 November 1975. [4]

Location

The college is located on the busy Sardar Patel Road in Secunderabad. It overlooks the expanse of the General K. V. Krishna Rao Parade Ground. The campus is situated about 1.5 km from the Secunderabad Junction railway station and the Begumpet Airport.

Courses

CAW conducts the following courses

Objectives

The training objectives of the college are: [5]

List of Commandants

S.NoNameAssumed officeLeft office
Commandant School of Land and Air Warfare
1 Air Commodore K L Sondhi14 July 19597 December 1959
2 Air Commodore S N Goyal11 December 195931 March 1961
3 Air Commodore H S Ratnagar6 June 196112 January 1966
4 Air Commodore A R Pandit, DFC 13 January 196624 November 1967
Commandant Joint Air Warfare School
1 Air Commodore A R Pandit, DFC 25 November 196714 December 1967
2 Air Commodore P C Ramachandran, AFC 15 December 196730 September 1970
3 Air Commodore FVA Scudder, AVSM 15 October 19707 May 1972
4 Air Commodore S S Achreja24 May 197229 February 1976
5 Air Commodore R P Sinha1 March 197611 November 1976
Commandant College of Air Warfare
1 Air Commodore R P Sinha12 November 197631 March 1980
2 Air Commodore A M Shahane12 November 19802 August 1981
3 Air Vice Marshal Man Singh, AVSM , VM , VSM 3 August 198116 December 1984
4 Air Vice Marshal I D Bhalla, AVSM 17 December 198431 July 1986
5 Air Vice Marshal R K Dhawan, AVSM , VM 20 August 198614 February 1988
6 Air Vice Marshal P J Jayakumar, AVSM 15 February 19882 July 1989
7 Air Vice Marshal Dushyant Singh, VM , VSM 3 July 19898 March 1991
8 Air Vice Marshal V Kapila, AVSM , VrC 11 March 199131 May 1992
9 Air Vice Marshal Jagbir Singh, VrC 19 October 199230 December 1994
10 Air Vice Marshal S S Hussain Naqvi, AVSM , VrC 31 December 199431 August 1997
11 Air Vice Marshal A K Trikha, AVSM , VSM 3 October 199731 August 1999
12 Air Vice Marshal A R Ghandhi, AVSM , VrC 1 September 199931 March 2001
13 Air Vice Marshal D E Jonas, AVSM 1 April 200131 April 2004
14 Air Vice Marshal V R Iyer1 November 200431 January 2007
15 Air Vice Marshal K G Bewoor, AVSM , VM 1 February 200722 March 2009
16 Air Vice Marshal PS Gill, AVSM , VM 23 March 200931 December 2010
17 Air Vice Marshal D P Upot, VSM 2 May 201130 November 2014
18 Air Vice Marshal Sreekumar Prabhakaran, VM 1 December 201419 June 2016
19 Air Vice Marshal Upakarjeet Singh, AVSM 20 June 201628 February 2017
20 Air Vice Marshal R Radhish, AVSM , VM 1 March 201712 November 2018
21 Air Vice Marshal Suraj Kumar Jha 13 November 201830 September 2019
22 Air Vice Marshal Dilip Kumar Patnaik, VM 1 October 201931 July 2020
23 Air Vice Marshal K. S. K. Suresh, VM 1 August 2021To date

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References

  1. ↑ India, The Hans (23 April 2021). "Hyderabad: Valedictory function of 44TH higher air command course held". www.thehansindia.com.
  2. ↑ "AIR COMMODORE SONDHI'S NEW APPOINTMENT" (PDF). archive.pib.gov.in. 26 May 1958.
  3. ↑ "College of Air Warfare | Indian Air Force | Government of India". indianairforce.nic.in.
  4. ↑ College of Air Warfare: Power Strategies and Combat Power
  5. ↑ "College of Air Warfare". indianairforce.nic.in. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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