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No. 10 Squadron
Active	20 February 1944 - 31 March 2019
Country	Republic of India
Branch	Royal Indian Air Force (1944-50) Indian Air Force (1950-2019)
Role	CAS Interdiction Reconnaissance
Garrison/HQ	Jodhpur AFS
Nickname(s)	"Winged Daggers"
Motto(s)	Yudhay Krutnischay Into war with determination
Commanders
Notable commanders	Bob Doe M. A. Rahman C. G. Devashar

Military unit

No. 10 Squadron (Daggers) was a fighter squadron equipped with MiG-27. It was based at Jodhpur Air Force Station. The squadron was number plated in March 2019.

History

No. 10 Squadron, Indian Air Force was the last squadron of the Royal Indian Air Force to be created during the World War II, and was formed in 1944.

The squadron was presented with its President's Standard on 18 March 1985, at Jodhpur.

Assignments

Aircraft


Aircraft	From	To	Air Base
Pre-Independence (1944–47)
Hawker Hurricane	May 1944	August 1945	Lahore
Harvard 2B	July 1944	September 1947
Spitfire VIII	August 1945	January 1947	AFS Yelahanka
Post-Independence (1947–Present)
Hawker Tempest	January 1947	January 1954	AFS Ambala
Vampire FB52	January 1954	January 1955	AFS Palam
Vampire NF54	September 1955	May 1964
Douglas C-47	July 1958	July 1964
HAL HF-24 Marut	April 1967	1971	AFS Pune
HAL HF-24 Marut	December 1971	August 1980	AFS Uttarlai
MiG-23	January 1981	December 1993	AFS Jodhpur
MiG-27	January 1994	31 March 2019	AFS Jodhpur

References

"Squadrons and Helicopter Units". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
"No.10 Squadron Winged Daggers". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
"No.10 Squadron Winged Daggers". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
Singh, Pushpinder (14 June 2017). "No.10 Squadron". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

Indian Air Force

Leadership

Components
& commands

Air Force commands

Operational	Central Air Command Eastern Air Command Southern Air Command South Western Air Command Western Air Command
Functional	Training Command Maintenance Command
Joint	Andaman and Nicobar Command Strategic Forces Command Defence Cyber Agency Defence Space Agency Armed Forces Special Operations Division

Air bases

Western Air Command	Adampur Ambala Amritsar Awantipora Bathinda Chandigarh Faridabad Gurugram Halwara Hindan Leh Palam Pathankot Sarsawa Siachen Glacier Sirsa Srinagar Udhampur
Eastern Air Command	Agartala Bagdogra Barapani AFS Barrackpore Chabua Dum Dum Hasimara Jorhat Kalaikunda Kumbhigram Mohanbari Mountain Shadow Tawang Tezpur Panagarh
Central Air Command	Agra Bihta Darbhanga Bakshi Ka Talab Bamrauli Bareilly Chakeri Gorakhpur Maharajpur
Southern Air Command	Car Nicobar Coimbatore Madurai Port Blair Tambaram Thanjavur
South Western Air Command	Bhuj Jaisalmer Jamnagar Jodhpur Lohegaon Nal-Bikaner Naliya Phalodi Uttarlai Makarpura
Training Command	Begumpet Bidar Dundigal Hakimpet Yelahanka Belgaum
Maintenance Command	Nagpur Ojhar
Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs)	Along Chinyalisaur Chushul Daulat Beg Oldi Fukche Hayuliang Mechuka Nyoma Pasighat Airport Tawang Thoise Tuting Vijaynagar Walong Ziro

Squadrons

Combat

No. 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
14
15
16
17
18
20
23
24
27
28
30
31
45
47
101
102
106
220
221
222
223
224

Transport

No. 11
12
19
25
33
41
43
44
48
49
59
77
78
81
87

Helicopters

Squadrons	No. 104 125
Units	No. 105 107 109 110 111 112 114 115 116 117 118 119 127 128 129 130 143 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159
Flights	No. 121 122 126 131 132

Acrobatic display

Communication

AHQCS

EW/AWS

RPA

Number plated

No. 10
21
22
26
29
32
35
37
51
108

Aircraft

Military
academies

Education & training	Sainik School Armed Forces Medical College Ajmer Military School Bangalore Military School Belgaum Military School Chail Military School Dholpur Military School Rashtriya Indian Military College
Schools & colleges	Air Force Academy Air Force Administrative College Air Force School, Coimbatore Air Force School, Jodhpur Flying Instructors School Indian Air Force Test Pilot School Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment Air Defence College College of Air Warfare
Tri-service institutions	Defence Services Staff College National Defence Academy National Defence College College of Defence Management Military Institute of Technology

Insignia

History & future

Other

List of exercises of the Indian Air Force

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