Indian Tejas and MiG-29K fighters land on INS Vikrant for the first time

The Indian Navy has recently marked a major milestone in the extensive aviation trials currently being conducted by the service’s first indigenously designed, developed and manufactured aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant (R11), after Indian Naval Test Pilots landed two different fighter types on the vessel for the first time. This milestone event took place on February 6, when a domestically developed HAL Tejas (Navy) light combat aircraft and a Russian-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29K Fulcrum-D fighter landed on Vikrant for the first time.