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'Golden letter day' as Navy Tejas fighter jet conducts crucial landing

Naval variant of Tejas clears dangerous mission before landing on aircraft carrier.

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Naval Tejas carried out an “arrested landing” in Goa.

Ajai Shukla New Delhi
India on Friday took a giant step towards designing and building a Tejas fighter capable of operating off aircraft carriers, when a Tejas prototype fighter carried out an “arrested landing” in the navy’s Shore Based Test Facility (SBTF) in Goa.

Even air force pilots accept that the most dangerous and spectacular flying mission is one that naval fighter pilots perform every day: landing a fighter on an aircraft carrier deck, which is often just 200 metres long.

Such a landing is only possible if the pilot can successfully snag a “tail hook” on the tail of the aircraft onto a

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