I muri i te Pakanga o 1965, i haere te IAF i roto i te raupapa o huringa ki te whakapai ake i tona kaha. I roto i te 1966, i hanga te Para Komando regiment. Ki te whakanui i tona logistics supply me te whakaora kaha mahi, te IAF whakaurua 72 HS 748s i hanga e Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) i raro i te raihana i Avro. tīmata India ki te hoatu atu te pēhanga i runga i te hanga kāinga o te rererangi whawhai. rite te hua, HAL HF-24 Marut, hangaia e te rongonui German aerospace engineer Kurt Tank, i whakaurua ki te ope rangi. tīmata hoki HAL whakawhanake i te putanga ake o te Folland Gnat, e mohiotia ana ko HAL Ajeet. I te wa ano, ka tīmata te IAF ki te whakauru i te Soviet MiG-21 me te Sukhoi-7 whawhai.
Ko te IAF