The IAF (Indian Air Force) fighter jet and transport aircraft performed emergency drills on the Purvanchal expressway airstrip on Saturday (June 24). 10 IAF jets performed emergency drills on the Purvanchal expressway airstrip Speaking to the news agency ANI, the District Magistrate Sultanpur, Jasjeet Kaur said, “Around 10 jets and aircraft performed a touch-and-go exercise on the airstrip in which one AN32 (Transport aircraft) completely landed on the airstrip.”The DM also said, “This is an emergency exercise performed by IAF to check the quality and strength of the airstrip so that emergency jets could easily land and go on the airstrip.”Which IAF jets were part of this drill Citing a few names of the fighter jets, she said that the Mirage fighter jet, Jaguar jet, and Antonov AN32 were part of this drill that happened on this airstrip.“Todays IAF emergency exercise was performed in the presence of senior IAF officials and ground staff. Mirage fighter jet, Jaguar jet, and Antonov AN32 were part of todays exercise,” said Jasjeet Kaur.Moreover, she said that Sukhoi was also part of this drill, however, amid bad weather conditions in Bareilly, it could not make for todays event as it was scheduled from that city. What arrangements were made for this drill To make the exercise successful, an area of 5 kilometres of Purvanchal expressway near Sultanpur was under repair since June 11, all the dividers were removed from the area of the airstrip for the safe and secure landing-and-go of aircraft.On November 16, 2021, the first IAF exercise on the Purvanchal expressway was performed, just before the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
