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Sep 25, 2025 5 tweets 2 min read
The Airman Who Ran Into Fire – A MiG-21 Story 🇮🇳

In 1966, The Indian Air Force was just inducting its first MiG-21s—fast, unforgiving, and demanding of both pilots and ground crew.

📍 Chandigarh, 9 November 1966.
A two-seat MiG-21 trainer,flown by Wg Cdr H. F. “Stumpy”...

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Watts (CO) and Sqn Ldr T. V. N. Vijayan (Flight Commander), crash-landed. Metal hit earth. Fire erupted. It was the IAF’s first MiG-21 trainer accident.

In the dispersal, Corporal Sukumar Ghosh saw the flames. No fire suit. No hesitation. Just instinct. Image
Aug 18, 2025 6 tweets 2 min read
Meerut, UP:

An Army jawan heading to Delhi airport to report back to J&K duty was brutally assaulted by toll plaza goons for objecting to the long queue.

And Meerut Police? Just 4 arrests.

Is this how you treat soldiers returning to guard the nation?

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Meerut Toll Plaza Case:

Patriotic villagers stormed the toll plaza and thrashed the goons, after they had brutally assaulted an Army soldier last night.