Military Digest | Remembering Air Marshal A D Joshi and his pioneering MiG-23 landing at Leh

Air Marshal A D Joshi (retd), who passed away on February 23 following an illness, was a former commander-in-chief of the Strategic Forces Command and a fighter pilot who had seen operational flying over a career of four decades. His first landing of a MiG-23 BN fighter bomber at Leh is worth recounting in his memory. The employment of a variety of fighter aircraft at Leh and Thoise over the previous decades has culminated in the operational sorties now flown by Rafale—the latest aircraft in the inventory of the Indian Air Force. However, much credit goes to intrepid flyers like…