The Indian Air Force (IAF) will reopen the strategically vital airstrip at Vijaynagar, the eastern-most tip of India. It has upgraded landing facilities to make it fully operational, enabling landing of transport and special operations planes like C-130- J and C-17.
This comes after the IAF made all six airfields, called advanced landing grounds (ALGs), in Arunachal Pradesh operational in the past few years. The one in Vijaynagar will be reopened when an An-32 transport plane of the IAF lands there on Wednesday. The IAF’s Eastern Command chief, Air Marshall RD Mathur, and Army Eastern Command Chief, Lt Gen Anil Chauhan, will be onboard the plane, sources told The Tribune.
