New Delhi: Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has successfully carried out a night-time ‘arrested landing’ of the naval variant of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas on Tuesday.
The DRDO has tweeted a video with a caption “Night time arrested landing of LCA Navy on 12 nov 2019.”
In a tweet the Defence Minister also congratulated DRDO, Indian Navy and HAL for the marvelous achievement.
DRDO sources said: “A normal LCA needs a runway spanning about 1-km for take-off and landing. But, for the naval variant, the take-off stretch is about 200 m and landing needs 100 m”.
