Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy

Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy
Born	January 18, 1943
Allegiance	India
Service/branch	Indian Air Force
Years of service	December 19, 1961 – 2004
Rank	Air Chief Marshal
Unit	No. 3 Squadron IAF
Commands held	Sirsa Air Force Station Halwara Air Force Station Western Air Command Indian Air Force
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Kargil War

Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy (Tamil: சீனிவாசபுரம் கிருஷ்ணசாமி) PVSM, AVSM, VM and Bar (b. Chennai Jan 1943) was the 19th Chief of Air Staff (India) from 2001 to 2004. He is an expert on Electronic warfare, and was awarded the Agni Award for Self Reliance in August 1999 for promoting indigenous development in the Indian Armed services. He was commanding the Western Air Command during the Kargil War and was primarily the operational commander responsible for all air operations of the war ^[1]

References

↑ http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Personnel/Chiefs/269-S-Krishnaswamy.html

Military offices
Preceded by Anil Tipnis	Chief of the Air Staff (India) 31 Dec 2001 - 31 Dec 2004	Succeeded by Shashindra Pal Tyagi

Chief of the Air Staff (India)

Commander, Indian Group (1919–1920)	Tom Webb-Bowen

Air Officer Commanding RAF, India (1920–1938)	Tom Webb-Bowen Philip Game Sir Edward Leonard Ellington Sir Geoffrey Salmond Sir John Miles Steel Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferté

Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Air Forces in India (1938–1947)	Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferté Sir John Frederick Andrews Higgins Sir Patrick Playfair Sir Richard Peirse Sir Guy Garrod Meredith Thomas Sir Roderick Carr Sir Hugh Walmsley

Air Officer Commanding, Royal Indian Air Force (1947–1948)	Sir Thomas Elmhirst**

Commander-in-Chief, Royal Indian Air Force (1948–1950)	Sir Thomas Elmhirst**

Commander-in-Chief, Indian Air Force (1950–1955)	Sir Thomas Elmhirst Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman Gerald Gibbs** Subroto Mukerjee

Chief of the Air Staff (1955–present)	Subroto Mukerjee Aspy Engineer Arjan Singh Pratap Chandra Lal Om Prakash Mehra Hrushikesh Moolgavkar Idris Latif Dilbagh Singh Lakshman Mohan Katre Denis La Fontaine Surinder Mehra Nirmal Chandra Suri Swaroop Kaul Satish Kumar Sareen Anil Tipnis Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy Shashindra Pal Tyagi Fali Homi Major Pradeep Vasant Naik Norman Anil Kumar Browne Arup Raha

(**Seconded from the Royal Air Force)

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