India, Feb. 14 -- Less than 300 kilometres from the Line of Actual Control with China, India has converted a stretch of highway in Assam into a potential runway for fighter jets, strengthening its operational posture along a sensitive frontier. The newly built Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) on the Dibrugarh-Moran stretch of National Highway 127, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday.

A video from the event shows an Indian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MKI taking off from the ELF on the Moran Bypass, as Prime Minister and other dignitaries looked on.

Located in Upper Assam, the facility is being viewed as a strategic addition to India's military infrastructure in the Northeast, giving the air force greater flexibility in ...