In yet another achievement for the DRDO in its effort to develop a variant of the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) for use on aircraft carriers, the fighter performed its first-ever night-time ‘arrested’ landing at a facility in Goa on Tuesday. The achievement brings the LCA Navy variant closer to trials off an aircraft carrier.
An arrested landing is an essential part of aircraft carrier flight operations and involves the raising of high-strength wires to snatch hold of a hook under the aircraft’s fuselage as it comes in to land in order to decelerate it and bring to a halt. Arrested landings are the only method for most aircraft to land on aircraft carriers, which have very limited space compared with conventional runways. Read More…
