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This article is written in Indian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, analysed, defence) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

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The InService Numbers of Aircraft are merely estimated and doesn't give the whole picture, changes from time to time depending on aircraft reserves, attrition figures etc.

So why not give Procured Numbers Figure.

The Queue.

I believe citations are needed for the following statements.

The serial number printed on that AMRAAM turned out to be the one which was sold to Taiwan. The US-based Foreign Policy magazine, quoting unnamed US officials, reported in April 2019 that an audit didn't find any Pakistani F-16s missing.

It has been proposed in this section that Indian Air Force be renamed and moved to Indian Air and Space Force. A bot will list this discussion on the requested moves current discussions subpage within an hour of this tag being placed. The discussion may be closed 7 days after being opened, if consensus has been reached (see the closing instructions). Please base arguments on article title policy, and keep discussion succinct and civil. Please use {{subst:requested move}}. Do not use {{requested move/dated}} directly. Links: current log • target log • direct move

Indian Air Force → Indian Air and Space Force – Rename done to Indian Air and Space Force Read more at:

http://m.timesofindia.com/articleshow/105885149.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst 122.187.144.98 (talk) 12:22, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose. Even that article mostly refers to it as the IAF. Can't see any evidence that it's officially been renamed. This article says it appears to be "imminent", not that it has happened. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:16, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add <noinclude>{{User:RMCD bot/subject notice|1=The Spirit of Mojave|2=Talk:Indian Air and Space Force#Requested move 12 December 2023}} </noinclude> at the top of article to allow article name change "Indian Air Force" to "Indian Air and Space Force" as per the above cited article as proof. 122.187.144.98 (talk) 12:30, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template.Shadow311 (talk) 14:42, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]