MIG Relocation Causes Stir
Indian Air Force has decided to station all its MIG 29 squadrons at Adampur, second lagest airbase in India in order to better combat any Pakistani penetration across the border. 
Adampur Airbase is located in western India, 21 kilometers Northeast of the city of Jullundur, and is approximately 100 kilometers East of the Pakistan border. Adampur is one of 14 Indian Airbases under the Western Air Command within 300 kilometers of the Pakistan border. Adampur Airbase is home to at least 70 combat aircraft including two squadrons of MiG- 29s, two squadrons of MiG-23s and a squadron of MiG- 21s. There are revetted aircraft dispersal areas on the north side of the airfield (“globalsecurity.org)
Calling themselves the “strategic” sector of the Indian Air Force, Air Commodore HS Arora, said that they “are fully geared up to operate in any given time frame like any other Air Force stations of the country.” The MIGs are being upgraded which “will have better radar systems and avionics to help fighters, a new weapon control system, modernised RD-33 engines, which would increase the aircraft hitting capability from long ranges.”
The newly upgraded MIGs are now tested at Russia. Also expert training is being provided to the IAF pilots.
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