New Delhi: in a Major Boost to IAF's Strategic Airlift Capability to Forward Areas, A Gigantic C-17 globemaster-III Aircraft has for the first time landed at the high-altitude kargil airfield near the line of control with Pakistan.
The “Trial Run” Saw The Four-Ingine C-17 take off from its home base at Hindon on the outskirts of delhi and land at the kargil arystrip, which is in a bowl surrounded by mountains on alle At an altitude of over 9,700-fit, on Wednsday Morning.
“The next step will be to conduct a night landing by a C-17 at Kargil. The C-17 can normally Airlift a 70-Tonne Cargo but it's Around 35 tonne at the altitude in Kargil. The Much Smaller C-130J 'Super Hercules' Had Landed At Night in Kargil in Jan Last Year. The C-17 Increases The Load Carrying Capacity by Around Four Times, “A Source Told Toi,
With an eye on bot china and Pakistan, India has progressively upgraded the infrastructure at forward Air-Bases and Advance Landing Grounds (Algs), Including Thoise, Fukche, Fukche, Fukche and Daulat Beg uli (Dbo) in ladakh as well as pasighat, mechuka, walong, tuting, along with and ziro in Arunachal Pradesh.
The Ongoing Rs 230 Crore upgrade work at the nyoma alg, which is located close to the line of actual control Extending and strengthening the existing aistrip into a 2.7-km 'Rigid Pavement' Runway for All Kinds of Fixed-WING AIRCRAFT Including Fighters for “Defensive as Well as Well as Well as Well as Well as Well as Well as Well as Well as Well as Earlier reported by toi.
The IAF has induced 11 c-17s for $ 4.5 billion and 13 c-130JS for $ 2.1 billion from the US over the last 15 years to amendment its airlift capacity. One C-130J was Lost in a Crash Near Gwalior in March 2014, which killed the five personnel on board.
The Rugged C-17s and C-13s, which can even land at Makeshift Airtrips, Have Been Extensive Used to Airlift Supplies and TROOPS to Burder ares with China and Pakistan, Pakistan NASIAN NASIAN NASIAN NASIAN NASINALS Abroad, and providing humanitarian aid and disaster reliaf in India and overseas.
In Aug 2013, for instance, A C-130J Had for the first time landed at the rudimentary aistrip in dbo at an altitude of 16,614-fit, the highest such alg in the world that Overlooks the Overlooks and Isa B Few kms from the lac with china.
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