IAF first time conducts Su-30MKI fighter jet exercise in Guwahati airport
Guwahati, May 2 (IBNS): By adding to its operational capabilities, the Indian Air Force (IAF) on Thursday exercised and operated its fighter jets from the civilian airports in the Eastern Indian sector.
In Guwahati airport, the IAF had deployed Russian origin Sukhoi, Su-30MKI fighter jet for testing and carried out take-off and landing operations.
The Eastern Air Command (EAC) had conducted the aircraft operational exercise in Kolkata and Durgapur airports also.
All the SU-30MKI aircrafts took off from Chhabua and Tezpur air base in Assam to take part in the operational exercise which is taking place after a gap of 2-3 years in Eastern Air Command Area of Responsibility (AoR).
The IAF conducted the exercise by aiming to use the civilian airports for strategic purposes in case of war like situation and attack from the enemy.
Wing Commander Shashank Mishra said that, the aim of this exercise to validate fighter operations from civil airfields.
“They operate from their own bases where they get be sustained and they are geared for their operations. This exercise will firstly familiarise the crew who operate this aircraft with civil airfield. This also helps in the manner that should there be a contingency and there be a requirement to operate from this airfields. In the last decades also, there are lots of focus in the Eastern Air Command,” Shashank Mishra said.
North East is shared bordering with China, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan.
The Union government has developed several airfields and also advanced landing fields in the region.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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