世界主要空軍-印度空軍(World Major Air Force-भारतीय वायु सेना/Indian Air Force)-2012

印度總統是印度三軍的最高統帥，是空軍的名義上的最高指揮官。空軍元帥軍階的空軍參謀部參謀長才是真正的印度空軍總司令。

分為五個作戰指揮部與兩個功能指揮部如下

Operational Commands Central Air Command (CAC), headquartered at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh Eastern Air Command (EAC), headquartered at Shillong, Meghalaya Southern Air Command (SAC), headquartered at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala South Western Air Command (SWAC), headquartered at Gandhinagar, Gujarat Western Air Command (WAC), headquartered at Subroto Park, New Delhi

Functional Commands Training Command (TC), headquartered at Bangalore, Karnataka Maintenance Command (MC), headquartered at Nagpur, Maharashtra

印度空軍擁有世界最多國與複雜系統的海空軍飛行部隊，同時有美英俄法及自製的軍用機在服役，但由於人為失誤和機械故障等因素，加上飛行員訓練不足導致印度空軍飛行事故頻傳尤其MiG-21系列戰機失事紀錄超過五百次有飛行棺材之稱。因此印度政府近年特別自英國採購鷹式高級教練機來加強訓練空軍飛行員，並增加模擬機的使用以及開設飛行心理課程等，同時將較老舊的機型逐漸退役。目前印度的中型多功能打擊機(Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA))競標案已決定採用法國Rafale作為新一代的多功能打擊機，也是Rafale第一個出口國。

 Combat aircraft

Jaguar M/S 120/10(On Order)
Jaguar T 31
MiG-21 153
MiG-23 14
MiG-27 88
MiG-29 68
Mirage 2000H 45
Mirage 2000TH 12
Su-30/MKI 137/53+40*(on order)
Tejas LCA Mk 1 1/19(on order)
Tejas LCA Mk 1 trainer 20
Special mission
1125 G100 (Recce) 1
EMB-145 (AEW) 0/3(On Order)
Gulfstream III (EW) 2
Il-76 (AEW) 3/3(On Order)
Tanker
Il-78 7
Transport
1125 Astra SPX 1
An-32 108
C-17 0/10*
C-130J 6/6*
Dornier 228 28/12
HS 748 55
Il-76 17
Combat helicopter
AH-64D 0/22*(On Order)
Dhruv ALH 25/54(On Order)
LCH 25
Mi-8/17 138/54+59*(On Order)
Mi-26 3
Mi-35 20
SA315 11
SA316 72
Training aircraft/helicopters
Hawk 132 35/70(On Order)
HJT-16 Kiran 161
HJT-36 Sitara 16
Saras 0/15*(On Order)