Prez Droupadi Murmu Takes Sortie in Sukhoi-30 MKI Fighter Plane

Tezpur: President Droupadi Murmu took a sortie onboard a Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter plane at the Tezpur Air Force Station in Assam on Saturday. President of India is also the Supreme Commander of the three services of Indian Defence Forces. It was her maiden sortie in a fighter aircraft.

President Droupadi Murmi is currently on a visit to Assam. The Sukhoi-30 MKI, which carried the President is a twin-seater multirole fighter jet. It was developed by Russia’s Sukhoi and built under licence by India’s aerospace giant Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).