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President Droupadi Murmu arrived astatine Air Force Station successful Haryana's Ambala connected Wednesday (October 29, 2025) greeting and volition beryllium taking a sortie successful Rafale combatant jet.
Rafale jets were utilized during Operation Sindoor, launched by India successful effect to the April 22 dastardly Pahalgam panic attack.
Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh was among others contiguous connected the occasion.
"The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu, volition sojourn Ambala, Haryana time wherever she volition instrumentality a sortie successful Rafale," a connection issued connected Tuesday (October 28, 2025) by the Rashtrapati Bhavan had said.
On April 8, 2023, Ms. Murmu, the ultimate commandant of the Indian equipped forces, became the 3rd President and 2nd pistillate caput of the authorities to instrumentality a sortie successful Sukhoi-30 MKI combatant craft astatine the Tezpur Air Force Station, Assam.
Former presidents A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Pratibha Patil had undertaken sorties successful Sukhoi-30 MKI combatant craft astatine the Air Force Station, Lohegaon adjacent Pune connected June 8, 2006 and November 25, 2009, respectively.
Manufactured by French aerospace large Dassault Aviation, Rafale combatant craft were formally inducted into the Indian Air Force successful September 2020 astatine the Air Force Station, Ambala.
The archetypal 5 Rafale aircraft, which had arrived from France connected July 27, 2020, were inducted successful 17 Squadron, the 'Golden Arrows'.
The Rafale jets were utilized successful Operation Sindoor, which was launched connected May 7 to destruct respective panic infrastructures successful territories controlled by Pakistan. The strikes triggered 4 days of aggravated clashes that ended with an knowing connected stopping the subject actions connected May 10.
