Military career
He was commissioned into the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force on 19 December 19867 from the Air Force Academy. [2] In a career spanning over three decades, he has over 3500 hours of flying experience across various fighter jets and has held numerous staff and instructional appointments. He is a highly experienced fighter pilot, qualified flying instructor and a fighter combat leader who has flown a variety of combat and trainer aircraft and has flown all variants of MiG-21 and the MiG-29. He is a Category 'Aye' qualified flying instructor, has done instructional tenure as flying instructor at Flying Instructors School, Tambaram and was also one of the founder members of the Indian Air Force's formation aerobatic team on the indigenous Kiran MK-II aircraft, the ‘Suryakirans’. The Air Marshal's operational tenures include being the commanding officer of No. 47 Squadron at Adampur Air Force Station. As a Group Captain, he served as the director of joint operations planning, [3] as the director (Opl Plg and Assesstment) [4] and later as the DPO-4 at the Air Headquarters, New Delhi.
As an air commodore, he served as the air officer commanding of 9 Wing, Halwara, [5] as the air assistant to the chief of Air Staff [6] and later as the Air Commodore (Opl Plg Assesstment and Strategy).
As an air vice marshal, he served as the air officer commanding, Jammu and Kashmir [7] [8] and as the as the assistant chief of Air Staff (Ops, Strategy). [9]
After getting promoted to the rank of air marshal, on 1 December 2023, he assumed the appointment of senior air staff officer, Western Air Command. [10] Later on 1 June 2025, he took over as the Commandant of the Air Force Academy. [11]
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