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No. 9 Squadron (Wolfpack) is a fighter squadron and is equipped with Mirage 2000 and based at Gwalior AFS under Central Air Command.[1]

No. 9 Squadron
Active	4 January 1944 - Present
Country	Republic of India
Branch	Indian Air Force
Role	Fighter
Garrison/HQ	Gwalior AFS
Nickname(s)	"Wolfpack"
Motto(s)	Sahase Wasati Jayashrih In Courage resides Victory
Aircraft flown
Fighter	Dassault Mirage 2000H/TH

History

The No. 9 Squadron was formed after the partition of British Sub Continent. The original No. 9 Squadron was handed over to Pakistan as the No.9 Squadron Griffins.

Assignments

• Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• Operation Safed Sagar - Kargil War (Indo-Pak War of 1999)
• Balakot Strike 2019

Aircraft

Aircraft	From	To	Air Base
Pre-Independence (1944–47)
Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC	February 1944	May 1945	Lahore[2]
Harvard IIB	June 1945	September 1947	Chittagong
Supermarine Spitfire VIII	June 1945	December 1946
Supermarine Spitfire XIV	February 1946	July 1947
Hawker Tempest II	July 1947	September 1947
Post-Independence (1947–Present)
Folland Gnat I	April 1964	March 1978
HAL Ajeet	April 1978	June 1987
MIG-27	October 1987	January 2003
Dassault Mirage 2000H	January 2004	Present	AFS Gwalior

References

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