Aircraft touchdown exercise takes place at Lucknow-Agra Expressway

KalingaTV News Network

Lucknow: The aircraft touchdown exercise took place at the Lucknow-Agra Expressway near Bangarmau in Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday.

The IAF’s Special Forces Garud commandos got off the C-130J transport aircraft with their vehicle, and took positions on either side of the expressway to secure “their airstrip” for the fighter aircraft.

For the first time a transport aircraft – a Super Hercules, which can carry 200 commandos – landed on the expressway. These planes were inducted into the air force in 2010.

Three Jaguar deep penetration strike aircraft, six Mirage 2000 aircrafts and Sukhoi-30MKI also took part in the exercise.

IAF fighter planes, Mirage-2000 fighters and Sukhoi-30, have twice landed on expressways in Uttar Pradesh. The first was in 2015 when a Mirage-2000 landed on the Yamuna expressway near Delhi.

Last November, six multirole combat aircraft Sukhoi-30 jets touched down on a 3.3 km stretch of the Lucknow – Agra expressway.