The Indian Air Force (IAF) today kicked off its major touchdown exercise with a C-130 Hercules landing on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway. In a first, the heavy-duty C-130 Hercules, the 35,000-kg transport aircraft, will make an assault landing with Garud commandos. Photo: ANI A total of 17 aircraft will practice the difficult landing today which will include two C-130 Hercules, Jaguar, Mirage 2000 and Sukhoi 30MKI fighter jets. Vice Chief of Indian Air Force Air Marshal S B Deo on Monday said that landing of fighter aircraft on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway is an "important operational achievement". The exercise begins with the short landing of C-130 Hercules, which will drop the Garud commandos.

Source: India Today October 24, 2017 05:29 UTC