IAF puts up air show

The air show was performed along a 3.2-km emergency landing field on the expressway designed to enable fighter aircraft to land and take off during emergencies.

Written by Lalmani Verma

Lucknow | Updated: November 17, 2021 03:58 AM IST

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Before the event, Modi landed there on a C-130J Hercules military transport plane.

Indian Air Force fighter jets put on a show in the skies above Karwal Kheri in Sultanpur district on Tuesday on the occasion of the inauguration of the Purvanchal Expressway by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The air show was performed along a 3.2-km emergency landing field on the expressway designed to enable fighter aircraft to land and take off during emergencies. Before the event, Modi landed there on a C-130J Hercules military transport plane.

The air show started with a Mirage-2000 jet landing on the expressway. The crowd’s excitement was palpable as it was announced that Mirage-2000 jets were used in the 2019 Balakot airstrike and the Kargil war. Among the other displays were a Sukhoi-30 jet that flew in the “Vertical Charlie” formation and a Mirage-2000 that flew in an “8” shape in the sky.

Lalmani Verma

Lalmani is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express, and is based in New Delhi. He covers politics of the Hindi Heartland, tracking BJP, Samajwadi Party, BSP, RLD and other parties based in UP, Bihar and Uttarakhand. Covered the Lok Sabha elections of 2014, 2019 and 2024; Assembly polls of 2012, 2017 and 2022 in UP along with government affairs in UP and Uttarakhand. ... Read More

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