Career
Diptendu Choudhury was commissioned as a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force. In a career spanning over 37 years,he has as more than 5000 hours of flying experience across various fighter aircraft. He is fully operational on MiG-21,MiG-27,MiG-29 and Su-30 aircraft. [3]
He is a qualified Fighter Combat Leader,an Instrument Rating Instructor and an Examiner. He has served two tenures at TACDE first as an Instructor and then as its Commandant. He has led three International exercises –Red Flag,Desert Eagle and Garuda exercise. [1]
As Group Captain,he served as the Commandant of Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment at Gwalior. Later,he served as Director (Joint Planning) at the Air Headquarters (Air HQ),New Delhi. [3]
As Air Commodore,he served as the Air Officer Commanding (AOC) of 35 Wing at Suratgarh,Rajasthan under the South Western Air Command. Later,he served as the AOC of 1 Wing at Srinagar under the Western Air Command. [3]
As Air Vice Marshal,he served as the Air Defence Commander at Central Air Command. Later,he served as the Air Officer Commanding (AOC) at the Composite Battle Response and Analysis Group (CoBRA) at Maharajpur. He also served as Air Defence Commander at the South Western Air Command situated in Gandhinagar. He has served as the Assistant Chief of Air Staff,Inspection at the 'Air Headquarters (Air HQ)' in Delhi. [4]
After his promotion to Air Marshal in April 2019,he served as the Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO),Western Air Command till 15 December 2019. [3] [5]
He took over as the Commandant,National Defence College on 16 December 2019 from Vice Admiral Srikant. [6] Under his command,a Chair of Excellence on National Security was setup at the National Defence College. [7]
After his retirement he is on the Visiting Faculty of various defence institutions. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. in air power and has also authored a large number of service papers. He is serving as a Distinguished Fellow,at Vivekananda International Foundation. [8] [9] [10] He has authored a book on 'Indian Air Power.' [11] He was also the Indian Air Force Advisor on the Hindi feature film Fighter. [12]
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