Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar takes over as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff

Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar AVSM VM & Bar has taken over as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff. An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, he was commissioned in the IAF in 1981 as a Fighter Pilot. He is an Experimental Test Pilot and has the distinction of having the highest flying hours on the Mirage 2000 aircraft in the IAF, besides undertaking the decisive precision attack on Tiger Hill during the Kargil conflicts in 1999 and had also been the Project Test Pilot for the Light Combat Aircraft.

The Air Officer has held various Command and staff appointments such as Principal Director Offensive Operations, Director of Space Application and Commandant Aircraft Systems Testing Establishment. He has also been Defence Attaché to Israel, AOC of AFS Jamnagar, Air Defence Commander of Western Air Command, Senior Air Staff Officer of Southern Air Command, Training Command and Senior Air Staff officer of HQ EAC prior to assuming the present assignment.