No. 9 Squadron IAF

No. 9 Squadron
Active	4 January 1944 - Present
Country	Republic of India
Branch	Indian Air Force
Role	Fighter
Garrison/HQ	Gwalior AFS
Nickname(s)	"Wolfpack"
Motto(s)	Sahase Wasati Jayashrih In Courage resides Victory
Aircraft flown
Fighter	Dassault Mirage 2000H/TH

Military unit

No. 9 Squadron (Wolfpack) is a fighter squadron and is equipped with Mirage 2000 and based at Gwalior AFS under Central Air Command.^[1]

History

The No. 9 Squadron was formed after the partition of British Sub Continent. The original No. 9 Squadron was handed over to Pakistan as the No.9 Squadron Griffins.

Assignments

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Operation Safed Sagar - Kargil War (Indo-Pak War of 1999)
Balakot Strike 2019

Aircraft


Aircraft	From	To	Air Base
Pre-Independence (1944–47)
Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC	February 1944	May 1945	Lahore^[2]
Harvard IIB	June 1945	September 1947	Chittagong
Supermarine Spitfire VIII	June 1945	December 1946
Supermarine Spitfire XIV	February 1946	July 1947
Hawker Tempest II	July 1947	September 1947
Post-Independence (1947–Present)
Folland Gnat I	April 1964	March 1978
HAL Ajeet	April 1978	June 1987
MIG-27	October 1987	January 2003
Dassault Mirage 2000H	January 2004	Present	AFS Gwalior

References

^ "Squadrons and Helicopter Units". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
^ "No.9 Squadron Wolfpack". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 22 June 2021.

Indian Air Force

Leadership

Minister of Defence
Chief of the Air Staff
Vice Chief of the Air Staff
Deputy Chief of the Air Staff
AOCs-in-C (Commander-in-Chief)
Serving marshals

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
29
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

No. 3001
3002
3003
3004
3005

Number plated

No. 10
21
22
26
28
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