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'Attracting bright talent, a challenge for IAF'

With the youngsters having more career opportunities than ever before, one of the new challenges faced by the airforce was to attract the bright talent.

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BANGALORE: With the young aspirants having more career opportunities today than ever before, one of the new challenges faced by the airforce was to attract the cream of bright talent to it, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal F H Major, said here on Thursday.

"The corporate world is offering lucrative careers to young talent and airforce is faced with the challenge of getting the best of talent to join it," he said while inaugurating a cardiac catheterisation laboratory.

However, the airforce is taking measures to attract this talent, including launching aggressive recruitment campaigns.

To a question whether the airforce was faced with a shortage of officers, the Air Chief Marshal said "Yes we are facing a few shortages", but did not elaborate.

On the Hawk Mk 132 advanced jet trainer (AJT) aircraft, which would impart stage-III training to the newly commissioned fighter pilots of IAF, he said, "we have received two of them and we hope to get eight of them by the end of this year. We plan to formally induct them by January 2008."

The Hawk's induction would enhance the safety levels. "Earlier, it was a quantum leap, now it will be a smooth transition," he said.

According to IAF sources, Hawk is expected to help bridge the gap between the relatively slow jet trainers such as the HAL manufactured `Kiran' and demanding high speed fourth generation fighter aircraft, currently in the IAF inventory including Su-30 MK1 and Mirage 2000.

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