College of Air Warfare (CAW) is a defence service training institution of the Indian Air Force. The college conducts courses and programmes in the art of Joint Warfare, with special emphasis on employment of Air Power. The functional and the administrative control of the college is with the Training Command of the IAF. The current Commandant of the college is Air Vice Marshal Prasant Sarad Wadodkar.
History The college was established on 1 July 1959 and was initially known as School of Land and Air Warfare (SLAW) situated at New Delhi. After receiving the approval from the President of India, SLAW moved to its present location in Secunderabad on 25 July 1959. Air Commodore K L Sondhi was the first Commandant. The college was inaugurated by the then Minister of Defence, V. K. Krishna Menon formally, on 3 September 1959. The School of Land Warfare was renamed as the Joint Air Warfare School (JAWS) on 25 November 1967, with the introduction of Naval aspects of warfare. It was renamed the "College of Air Warfare" in January 1976 after the IAF received sanction from the President on 9 November 1975.College of Air Warfare: Power Strategies and Combat Power
Location The college is located on the busy Sardar Patel Road in Secunderabad. It overlooks the expanse of the General K. V. Krishna Rao Parade Ground. The campus is situated about 1.5 km from the Secunderabad Junction railway station and the Begumpet Airport.
Courses CAW conducts the following courses Higher Air Command Course (HACC) Professional Knowledge Course-Flying (PKC-F) Space Operations and Spatial Technology Course (SOSTC) Space Law Course (SLC) Warfare and Aerospace Strategy Program (WASP) Ground Liaison Officers Course (GLOC) Senior Officers Study Period (SOSP) Mid-Career Interaction Programme (MCIP) Weapon to Target Matching (WTM)
Objectives The training objectives of the college are: To assist in development of Air Force doctrines, concepts and strategy. To study and teach 'Air Power' and conduct training in concepts of Air Warfare. To conduct training in Joint Air Operations for officers of Army, Navy and Air Force. To conduct computer aided War-Games of the Air War. To establish and maintain liaison with similar organisations in the other countries. To impart training to junior and middle level officers of the Indian Air Force in leadership and behavioural sciences, so as to improve their qualities of leadership and man management. To research, compile and publish books on IAF Personalities, Institutions, Campaigns and Squadrons.
List of Commandants S.No Name Assumed office Left officeCommandant School of Land and Air Warfare1Air Commodore K L Sondhi14 July 19597 December 19592Air Commodore S N Goyal11 December 195931 March 19613Air Commodore H S Ratnagar6 June 196112 January 19664Air Commodore A R Pandit, 13 January 196624 November 1967Commandant Joint Air Warfare School1Air Commodore A R Pandit, 25 November 196714 December 19672Air Commodore P C Ramachandran, 15 December 196730 September 19703Air Commodore FVA Scudder, 15 October 19707 May 19724Air Commodore S S Achreja24 May 197229 February 19765Air Commodore R P Sinha1 March 197611 November 1976Commandant College of Air Warfare1Air Commodore R P Sinha12 November 197631 March 19802Air Commodore A M Shahane12 November 19802 August 19813Air Vice Marshal Man Singh, 3 August 198116 December 19844Air Vice Marshal I D Bhalla, 17 December 198431 July 19865Air Vice Marshal R K Dhawan, 20 August 198614 February 19886Air Vice Marshal P J Jayakumar, 15 February 19882 July 19897Air Vice Marshal Dushyant Singh, 3 July 19898 March 19918Air Vice Marshal V Kapila, 11 March 199131 May 19929Air Vice Marshal Jagbir Singh, 19 October 199230 December 199410Air Vice Marshal S S Hussain Naqvi, 31 December 199431 August 199711Air Vice Marshal A K Trikha, 3 October 199731 August 199912Air Vice Marshal A R Ghandhi, 1 September 199931 March 200113Air Vice Marshal D E Jonas, 1 April 200131 April 200414Air Vice Marshal V R Iyer1 November 200431 January 200715Air Vice Marshal K G Bewoor, 1 February 200722 March 200916Air Vice Marshal PS Gill, 23 March 200931 December 201017Air Vice Marshal D P Upot, 2 May 201130 November 201418Air Vice Marshal Sreekumar Prabhakaran, 1 December 201419 June 201619Air Vice Marshal Upakarjeet Singh, 20 June 201628 February 201720Air Vice Marshal R Radhish, 1 March 201712 November 201821Air Vice Marshal Suraj Kumar Jha13 November 201830 September 201922Air Vice Marshal Dilip Kumar Patnaik, 1 October 201931 July 202023Air Vice Marshal K. S. K. Suresh, 1 August 20214 September 202224Air Vice Marshal Manish Khanna5 September 20222 July 202324Air Vice Marshal Prasant Sarad Wadodkar1 September 2023Present
See also Army War College, Mhow Naval War College, Goa Indian National Defence University Military Academies in India Tactics and Air Combat and Defence Establishment (TACDE) Vijeta-1982 Hindi film
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