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Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa took over as the 25th Chief ofthe Air Staff on 31 December 2016. In his address to the IAF, Air Chief Marshal Dhanoa said that he was "honoured and privileged to have been entrusted with the responsibility to lead one of the finest Air Forces in the world" and would "certainly be inspired by the exceptional achievements and the leadership of so many of my illustrious predecessors."
He spoke on the IAF's modernisation and transformation into a strategic aerospace power with full-spectrum capability, highlighting new acquisitions and replacement of obsolete equipment as steps that would bolster the force's capabilities. He said that it had "been a matter of great national pride"...