LUCKNOW, May 3 -- Uttar Pradesh on Friday became the first state in the country to have the night landing facility for fighter jets on an expressway. The milestone was reached when the Indian Air Force (IAF) jets touched down and took off on the 3.5-km stretch of the Ganga Expressway near Piru village under Jalalabad tehsil in Shahjahanpur. The exercise was conducted in two phases - during the day and at night from 9pm to 10pm- to test the airstrip's night-landing capabilities, according to the UP government. Cutting-edge aircraft such as the Rafale, Sukhoi-30 MKI, MiG-29, Mirage-2000, Jaguar, AN-32, C-130J Super Hercules, and MI-17 helicopters of the Indian Air Force took to the skies in an extraordinary showcase of combat readiness and disaster relief capabilities. The exercise holds much significance in the wake of heightened tension after the Pahalgam terror attack in J-K. P3...