new improved version of the Folland Gnat , known as HAL Ajeet . At the same time, the IAF also started inducting Mach 2 capable Soviet MiG-21 and Sukhoi Su-7 fighters. IAF C-119 aircraft dropping Indian Paratroopers near Tangail, about 150 km from Dhaka, December 11, 1971. By late 1971, another