PM Modi launches new strategic air base in Gujarat's Deesa

PM Modi launches new strategic air base in Gujarat's Deesa

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Category : Defense Published on: October 21 2022

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  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of a new air base in Gujarat's Deesa which, after its completion, will reduce the long-pending strategic gap of 355 km between the Bhuj and Uttarlai air bases.
  • Deesa is a Greenfield air base spread over an area of 4,519 acres being developed in the Banaskantha region
  • The land was acquired for the IAF in 1983.
  • The Engineer in Chief Lt Gen Harpal Singh informed that the entire airbase has been worked out in a manner such that it will all finish by December, 2023.
  • He said the Deesa air base, mere 130 kilometers from the Indo-Pak border, will be able to give a better response to any threat coming from the western side.
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