Скачать или смотреть New Indian national highway Named Barmer is recently Inaugurated as Runway for Indian Air Force Jets

A plane of the Indian Air Force (IAF), carrying Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday conducted a mock emergency landing for the first time on a national highway in Rajasthan's Barmer. This was made possible because of an impressive engineering feat as the highway is equipped with the 3.5 kilometre-long airstrip which is ready to handle emergency landings of the IAF's fighter jets and other aircraft.

Earlier, India had also managed to build two expressways that are equipped with emergency landing airstrips, in the state of Uttar Pradesh. But the NH-925 is the first national highway to earn such a feat.
This emergency landing area is strategically important from the national security point of view also as it is just 40 kilometre from the India-Pakistan border.What are highway strips?

A highway strip or road runway or a road base is a section of a highway, motorway or other form of public road that is specially built to act as a runway for (mostly) military aircraft and to serve as an auxiliary military airbase.

The standard design for the emergency landing strips includes parking slots for four aircraft, an air traffic control (ATC) tower and two gates at both ends of the strip.

Several countries such as Germany, Sweden, South Korea, Taiwan, Finland, Switzerland, Poland, Singapore, Czechoslovakia, even Pakistan have dedicated stretches on their highways and expressways for aircraft to land and take off in emergencies or during the war.

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