Located near the Moran Bypass in Assam, the newly built emergency landing strip provides the Air Force with a strategically placed alternate runway in a region packed with key IAF bases facing China. As the PM lands here for the inauguration, the facility underscores its role in wartime contingencies-where fighters low on fuel or displaced by attacks on main bases can divert safely-as well as during humanitarian missions.
PM Inaugurates Northeast’s First Emergency Landing Facility In Assam’s Moran
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a historic landing at northeast’s first emergency landing facility (ELF) aboard C-130J aircraft in Assam’s Moran, beginning his one-day tour of the state that is…
