Leh airfield operational

LEH, NOV. 19. The world's highest airfield here has become operational for the IAF's frontline fighters MiG-29s with the Air Officer Commanding- in-Chief, Western Air Command, Air Marshal Vinod Bhatia, declaring it would give New Delhi a ``far greater reach towards central Asia''.

Mr. Bhatia told newsmen that the Air Force's most lethal air superiority fighters becoming operational at Leh would mean,``we are closer to threats to the security of the country''.

- PTI

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