IAF Touchdown Exercise on Lucknow-Agra Expressway Live Streaming on Zee News Hindi: Watch Landing of Fighter Jets, Transport Aircrafts on UP Highway

A patch of the Lucknow-Agra Expressway will double up as a landing strip for the touchdown exercise.

New Delhi, Oct 24: Going ahead with its plan to use highways as landing strips during emergencies, the Indian Air Force (IAF) will conduct a major touchdown exercise on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway today. A C-130 transport aircraft with Special Forces commandos and frontline fighters from IAF’s inventory will be a part of the exercise to use highways as landing strips. A patch of the Lucknow-Agra Expressway will double up as a landing strip for the touchdown exercise. The Zee News will host the live streaming of IAF’s touchdown exercise on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway. Click here to watch AIF fighter aircrafts landing on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway on Zee News in Hindi. Catch live updates on IAF touchdown exercise on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway here

As many as 16 aircrafts will land or touchdown on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway. The aircrafts that will land on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway include three Jaguar fighters, six Mirage 2000 fighters — in two groups of three each, and six Su-30 fighter jets, again in two groups of three each. The exercise, second of its kind and first at this scale, is organised by the Indian Air Force, together with the Uttar Pradesh government. The exercise will start with a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft of IAF making an assault landing with Garud commandos.

Ahead of the exercise, Vice Chief of Indian Air Force Air Marshal S.B. Deo said landing of fighter aircraft on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway is an “important operational achievement”. “It’s a very important operational achievement, we have done it earlier where we have the Mirages land on this highway, and highways can be very important during wartime when the runway is denied for some reason,” Deo said on the sidelines of an event.

On May 21, 2016, a Mirage-2000 fighter plane of the IAF had touched down on the Yamuna Expressway as a display of capability to land fighter jets on highways.