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World’s Highest Fighter Airfield
September 16 , 2023
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- The Border Roads Organisation is to construct India's highest fighter airfield in Nyoma, a village in Ladakh.
- The Nyoma village is located close to the south Bank of Pangong Tso at an altitude of about 13,700 feet.
- Nyoma is around 46 kilometres from the Line of Actual Control with China.
- Besides the Nyoma Airfield, the BRO would soon set in motion the construction of Shinkun La Tunnel.
- It will be the world's highest tunnel at an altitude of 15,855 feet.
- The tunnel will connect Lahaul-Spiti in Himachal to the Zaskar Valley in Ladakh and provide all-weather connectivity.
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