Land approach is okay during winters. Only issue is whether we need a permanent base there and whether we could afford it. To be honest, Skardu is offset by three and possibly four enemy airbases.
Whatever we may say about him, Abhinandan proved to be a man of courage. He turned out to be probably the only Indian military man who stood his ground and did his duty.
A sea-killer missile would be operated by Navy. Army focuses on shore-based and inland targets. Testing area and terrain in video are not meant to depict a land-to-ship profile.
Well, certainly this tale is no older than the one parroted around by the Indians about their jets locking on to the PAF aircraft over the LOC/LOAC in 1999 during the Kargil crisis.
These boars were found at other bases as well. While deployed at Murid in 2002, some of us hunted them with shotguns borrowed from the bird-bashers. Quite a fun thing during the night! The DSG guys were flabbergasted. Now, I don't know if the problem still persists at Sargodha and other places.
Kernal Sher was a fantastic soldier. I had the honor of being one of his scrabble partners and mess mates during my days at Domel, 1998. With 12 NLI. What a gem! Still miss his smile, his laughter and his courage. Salute to the mujahid.
Without going into the specifics of whose legs were rubbery on that day, it can be said that a more aggressive commander on a longer leash by his leadership-both political as well as service- could have slaughtered the opposition.
We had a local superiority in numbers in the sky, the CAP birds...