India needs an integrated ‘Air and Space Force’: Senior IAF officer

. NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force Air Marshal Ashish Singh on Tuesday pitched for an integrated “Air and Space Force”, saying that “militarisation of space is on the increase and probability of its weaponisation is also increasing” and that India will have to become a true aerospace power if it wants to stay relevant in the coming Space Age. Explaining the importance of space as a key domain at Indian Space Congress 2026, Air Marshal Singh said, “Space enables air power more than anything else, and vice versa. Countries which are leading aerospace powers (US, Russia, China and France) are…