NEW DELHI: In a historic moment, President Droupadi Murmu took a sortie on a Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft on Saturday.
Supreme Commander of the three services, the President, took the sortie at the Tezpur Air Force Station in Assam, where she is currently on a visit.
The Sukhoi-30 MKI is a twin-seater multirole fighter jet developed by Russia’s Sukhoi and built under licence by India’s aerospace giant Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.