Breaking News: IAF Mirage-2000 jet lands on Yamuna Expressway

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Source IAF successfully lands fighter jet on Yamuna Expressway


The Indian Air Force (IAF) has successfully landed a fighter jet on the Agra-Lucknow expressway.

Trial run for an Air Force aircraft landing carried out on Yamuna Expressway (UP)Vine

— ANI (@ANI_news) May 21, 2015


Hindustan Times had reported earlier this month that the IAF were in talks to convert the nearly 3km stretch into a road runway - the first of its kind in the country.

The road runway will be used as an emergency landing strip for IAF aircraft.

 

[a.kumar]

SOURCE: IDRW NEWS NETWORK (INN)

IAF’s Mirage-2000 Landing on Yamuna Expressway

Reports are coming in is that India air force has carried out first trials of landing a military jet in road runway for combat jets. Indian air force Mirage-2000 successfully landed in Yamuna Expressway which is a 6-lane, 165 km long, connecting Greater Noida with Agra.

Recently Two IAF’s Mirage-2000s were test landed at and flown back from the Saifai village airstrip which IAF described as a test to use the airstrip for any emergency purposes or exercises.

IAF is also working to select a nearly three-kilometer segment that will be turned into an airstrip on Agra-Lucknow expressway which will be longest expressway in the country once completed and will also be India’s first Road runway marked to be used in emergency purposes or for exercises.

Breaking News: IAF Mirage-2000 jet lands on Yamuna Expressway | idrw.org

 

[unbiasedopinion]

I was saying the same a week ago and it happened.

 

[HariPrasad]

We must make our Border roads such that we van land fighter on them. The proposed highway of connecting the border posts must have 2 to 3 KM stretches at few KM distance to enable our planes to land there. We must made some mobile proisin to refuel them. This shall make it our difficult for our enemy to target our capability at a single place,

 

[unbiasedopinion]

More news coming


NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force has carried out a successful trial of landing a combat jet on a road runway.

The IAF's Mirage 2000 successfully landed on Yamuna Expressway near Mathura on Thursday.

It's a kind of first for military aviation in India.

Road runways are used for emergency landing and become important if airbases are crippled during war times.

At present, countries such as Germany, Poland, Sweden, South Korea, Taiwan, Finland, Switzerland, Poland, Singapore, Czechoslovakia and Pakistan have dedicated stretches on their expressways and highways for airplanes to land and take off in case of an emergency.

On condition of anonymity, a senior IAF officer said, "During the 1971 war, couple of Pakistani jets did manage to reach Agra to execute bombardments, which never happened. The stretch on Agra-Lucknow expressway will provide additional strategic points to air power, in case any emergency situation happens during conflict or at peace time."


IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway - The Times of India

 

[FNFAL]

Makes me wonder if the jaguar and mig 29 will be next..

 

[jammersat]

God speed Israeli air force

 

[Jayanta]

Makes me wonder if the jaguar and mig 29 will be next..

I think Jaguar can easily do it...the older version of jags could take off from fields...check 2.00 min onwards of the video below.

God speed Israeli air force

It was done by the Indian Air Force...

 

[Optimos Prime IA]

That's cool French must give their used Mirage 2K to IAF we will take care of it for another 15 years or so

 

[Agni-5]

vids ?

 

[danish_vij]

i have driven on yamuna exxpressway...it awesome...but wha irkss me the expressway has a speed limit of 100km/h only lol it should have been 150 atleast thts what expressways are meant for



on topic: great achieveement yamuna epressway is perfect for tis job anyways it never attracted too much traficc ";lol:

 

[Srinivas]

IAF needs numbers to be a formidable force.

I think our national highways are good can be used for take off and landings with little modifications.

 

[Suman]

 

[Odysseus]

We need more of these.

 

[unbiasedopinion]

There is already a thread going on this..

IAF successfully lands fighter jet on Yamuna Expressway