India’s armed forces mounted a series of air operations on 27 Aug 2025 to extract civilians and security personnel trapped by floods and landslides across three states, deploying fixed-wing transports and multiple helicopter fleets under challenging weather conditions. In Punjab, Army Aviation helicopters launched at 6 a.m. lifted 22 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and three civilians from a building near the Madhopur Headworks that had been cut off by rising water. The evacuation was completed moments before the structure reportedly gave way to floodwaters. Further north, the Army’s WhiteKnightCorps flew 17 helicopter shuttles over 10 hours to rescue 27 people stranded on inundated river islands in Jammu. Separately, the Air Force readied C-130 and IL-76 aircraft at Hindon air base with National Disaster Response Force supplies for the landslide-hit region, while Chinook and Mi-17 V5 helicopters were placed on standby at Jammu, Udhampur, Srinagar and Pathankot. In central India, an Indian Air Force crew responded to a request from the Bastar district administration in Chhattisgarh, retrieving an unspecified number of residents marooned by flooding in the Indravati River. Authorities said additional sorties would be scheduled if water levels continue to rise.