India’s 1st, world’s 5th night safari to debut in Lucknow by Dec 2026: Yogi
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Tuesday, said that UP will gift the country its first night safari by December 2026.
Sukhois, Jaguars and Mirages of the IAF did a touch down and take off drill on a four-km stretch of the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday as hundreds of thousands of people lined up to watch the thrilling spectacle.
While more than a dozen of the 16 planes that landed were fighter planes, the remaining were carriers.
The four-km stretch had been strengthened during construction for the purpose, an official informed IANS.
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In November last year, a similar drill involving eight fighter planes had been conducted a few days before the inauguration of the 302-km Expressway by the then Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
A special US plane C-130 was also involved in Tuesday’s drill, officials informed.
The two-hour drill, officials said, was to train the Indian Air Force (IAF) fighters and personnel to deal with emergency situations like an aerial attack or destruction of a base, which would require immediate touch down and take off from other places to retaliate, an informed source clarified.
The Agra-Lucknow Expressway has been thrown out of bounds for vehicular traffic for the past few days in view of the drill.
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