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Nov
New Delhi (Gurpreet Singh): Air Chief Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, who has taken over as the 29th Chief of the Air Staff, has outlined an ambitious roadmap for the Indian Air Force (IAF), placing operational readiness, indigenous defence capabilities, technological innovation and joint operations at the centre of its future strategy. In his first address as Air Chief on Sunday, November 1, Dixit introduced the guiding vision ‘VAYU’, built around four priorities: Vigilance, Victory and Readiness; Aatmanirbharta; Yukti; and Unity of Effort. The roadmap comes amid an evolving security environment in which drones, long-range precision strikes, space, cyber warfare, artificial intelligence…