Two Indian Air Force MiG squadrons close down

MiG-27ML TS534 of No 22 Squadron ‘Swifts’. Angad Singh THE INDIAN Air Force (IAF) announced final flights for No 108 Squadron ‘Hawkeyes’ and No 22 Squadron ‘Swifts’ last December, in advance of their decommissioning at the end of the fiscal year (March 31, 2018). No 22 Squadron, based at Hasimara in the eastern state of West Bengal, was the last unit flying non-upgraded HAL-built MiG-27ML strike aircraft. Raised in October 1966 as a Gnat unit at Bareilly in the northern