New Delhi: Months ahead of the India-Pakistan war broke out in 1971, it was just another day at work for the five young pilots at IAF's 22 squadron in Kalaikunda as they moved around camouflaged nets and concrete
blast pens in their black overalls and bikes, preserving themselves for the action.
"The central government has cleared a project for the construction of around 110 hardened shelters also known as
blast pens which protect the fighter planes from enemy missile or bomb attacks," government sources told ANI.
Mock radar sites, tanks, marshalling yards, terrorist camps, runway, BMP (infantry fighting vehicles),
blast pens and convoys are among few of the targets that pilots will seek to destroy.