New Delhi: In the first, IAF’s C-130J Super Hercules Transport aircraft with Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Minister of Transportation Jalan Nitin Gadkari and Air Head Marshal RKS Bhadauria Onboard landed at the 925-A National Highway at Barmer Rajasthan on Thursday.
The Hercules C-130J aircraft from the IAF, which conducted an artificial emergency landing in the Satta-Gandhav stretched on the 925 national highway, was India’s first national highway to be used for the emergency landing of the IAF transport aircraft.
The two ministers also witnessed many aircraft operations at the Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) NH-295 on Thursday.
Sukhoi-30MKI Fighter Jet also made an artificial emergency landing in the elf in front of the two ministers.
The A-32 military transportation aircraft and the IAF MI-17V5 helicopter also landed in the elf, showing complete operational readiness to act as a helped military airbase.
These all you want to know about ELF, which are strategic encouragement for the west sector and effective backup escape for situations such as war.
* Indian Air Force Officers said this facility as “forced multipliers, which proved to be a strategic encouragement for the western sector and effective backup escape for situations such as war.” Speaking of the importance of this landing strip, said a commander of the wing that served, “in the 1971 war, the strip of the pathankot air base landing was very much and there was no backway backup, but this type of facility became important in such a scenario.
A new way of landing on this highway Performed globally and economically work effectively because it presents multiple purposes at the same cost.
“* Located near the Indian-Pakistani border, this facility has been developed under the Bharatmala project in the Barmer district at the National Highway-925a, about 40 km from Pakistan.
* This is 3 km long and 33 meters wide.
Parking facilities have been made on both sides to ensure that planes can be placed there.
Construction work has begun in July 2019 and completed in January 2021.
* NHAI has developed a part of 3 km of stretching the Satta-Gandhav NH-925A which is part of the supply of two-lane paved shoulders from Gagariya-Bakhasar and satta-gandhav.
* While the IAF has an airplane on previous national highways, including Yamuna Expressway, this is the first time NHAI has developed a strip considering the requirements for landing facilities where the Transporter aircraft will also be able to land for the first time on NH, apart from combat jets.
* ELF is built in a span of 19 months.
This was 196.97km long and was built at a cost of Rs 765.52 Crore under Bharatmala Pariyanajana.
* Apart from ELF, three 100×30 mt’s size helipads have been built in Kundanpura Village, Singhania and Bakhasar, which will be the basis for strengthening defense forces and security networks on the international border of the country.
* On normal days, the field will be used for traffic without interruption, but when the Air Force requires it for its activities, road service will only be used by it.
* At present, countries such as Germany, Sweden, South Korea, Taiwan, Finland, Switzerland, Poland, Singapore, even dedicated Pakistan stretches on the highway and freeway to land and fight in an emergency or during the war.
* Over the past few years, India has also tried to optimize several motorized roads and highways for this purpose.
Road transportation services and highways are working on a proposal with the Ministry of Defense to build a runway on the highway and 22 spots have been identified throughout the country.
(With input from agency)