IAF activated 1962 era Advanced Landing grounds in Arunachal

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The Walong Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) in Arunachal Pradesh, which was abandoned after the 1962 India-China War, has been revived.
The IAF's Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Air Command, Air Marshal C Hari Kumar, inaugurated the restored Walong ALG on Friday.
Air Vice-Marshal Manavendra Singh, senior Army officials and other dignitaries were present at the inauguration.
In 2013, it was decided that the abandoned ALG would be reconstructed and made fully operational.
The project was closely monitored by the Eastern Air Command's chief engineer for northeastern projects and works department.
The project was completed within a record 21 months despite challenges like high-altitude location and difficulties in transporting materials and machineries.
Shillong-based IAF PRO Group Captain Amit Mahajan said the strategic location of Walong ALG will be a launching pad for air operations and also facilitate administration in the management of border areas.
Besides, the ALG will also provide air support in responding to natural calamities, evacuation, humanitarian assistance and supply of equipment and ration to troops posted in far-flung areas.
Located in Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh, Walong was one of the theatres of battle during the India-China war.

 

[[Bregs]]

welcome decision this will give impetus to the faster movements of goods in inhospitable area faster

 

[kaykay]

Good news. Many upgradations are going on currently like Pasighat, Along etc. A total of 6 ALGs will be operational in Arunachal Pradesh in next 2 years.

 

[Mirza Jatt]

Very good news.

 

[Mitro]

First thing to be taken out in case of war easy target practice .

 

[Hindustani78]

The Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Air Command, Air Marshal C. Hari Kumar inaugurating the Advanced Landing Ground, at Walong on October 23, 2015.

 

[GR!FF!N]

Work is going on/completed in 8 ALGs...

Tuting, Mechuka, Aalo, Tawang, Wallong, Ziro, Vijoynagar and Pasighat.

Arunachal wants 2 more ALGs,Koloriang and Anini to be used along with a new ALG in Sogyatse,Tawang,

But possibly India is not going to create a new ALG in Sogyatse because of topographic constraints and weather.

 

[Hindustani78]

Arunachal air strip operational once again

New Delhi/Guwahati,  Oct 26, 2015, dhns
Walong functional eight years after govt decision

Almost eight years after the government decided to reactivate several air strips close to China border in the North-East, the first one has become operational in Walong in Arunachal Pradesh.

On Friday, the advanced landing ground (ALG) at Walong was inaugurated by Air Marshal C Hari Kumar, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Air Command, in the presence of senior officials from the IAF and the Army.

Walong ALG was operational during 1962 Chinese aggression, after which it remained abandoned for a long time till the government agreed to reactivate it along with several other ALGs in the North-East for quicker troop movements in case of an emergency. The ALGs are being repaired for full-fledged fixed wing aircraft operation.

“Almost 50 per cent work is complete on the remaining ALGs and all of them would be made operational by the end of 2016,” said a top IAF official. The IAF officer's hope contradicts a recent government assessment that suggests that Ziro is the only other ALG (besides Walong) where considerable progress have been made in the repair work.

Little progress has been made in Passighat, Mechuka, Along, Tuting and Tawang, at least till the middle of 2015. The least work, just 12 per cent, was done in Tawang, where there is a sizable presence of the Indian Army. The Walong ALG will supply equipment and ration to the troops posted in far flung areas besides providing air support in tackling natural calamities and casualties evacuation.

Under the supervision of the Eastern Air Command in Shilong, part of the delay in executing the ALG projects is their difficult locations and natural obstacles in sustaining supply of material and machinery.

The defence ministry plans to reactive these ALGs to operate the Indian Air Force’s C-130J and the upgraded AN-32. But barring Vijaynagar, where an AN-32 landed in November, 2011, there is little success in the North-East so far.

IAF flights to Vijaynagar were discontinued in 2009 due to poor condition of the runway made out of pierced steel plate sheets. But when the Centre decided to reactivate the advanced landing, extensive repair work was undertaken to make it operational.

 

[Killswitch]

The NE needs the following:

Airstrips
Helipads
Roads
Railways

A fully equipped and trained strike corps

A ton of 155mm artillery and AA guns

An ICBM base with missiles capable of hitting every major city in the PRC.

Apparently Modi and VK Singh have sped up the process.

 

[Hindustani78]

The NE needs the following:

Airstrips
Heelipads
Roads
Railways

A fully equipped and trained strike corps

An ICBM base with missiles capable of hitting every major city in the PRC.

Apparently Modi and VK Singh have sped up the process.

These are all development projects which is to improve the infrastructure in North East India.

Proxies were the reasons that development projects were hampered for decades, now that Indian part is seeing the progress and development.

 

[Hindustani78]

The NE needs the following:

Airstrips
Helipads
Roads
Railways

Ministry for Development of North-East Region
27-October, 2015 17:53 IST
DoNER Ministry moots commercial helicopter service within Northeast to improve intra-regional connectivity

The Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Ministry has mooted commercial helicopter service within Northeast in order to improve intra-regional connectivity.

At a meeting of senior officers of the Union Ministry for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Dr Jitendra Singh said that the biggest hurdle in attracting investments, tourism and entrepreneurship in Northeast is the lack of adequate connectivity. Even though the rail network expansion has started on a fast track in the last one year or so. The first - ever rail link to Meghalaya was flagged off by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi within six months of the taking over of the present government, he said. He also said that most parts still remain unconnected by rail. Similarly, road connectivity also gets adversely affected due to weather conditions, he added. In such a situation, improvement in air connectivity is the only immediate viable option, the Minister said.

Dr Jitendra Singh said that the DoNER Ministry is taking up with the Civil Aviation Ministry, the prospect of developing Guwahati Airport as regional hub for the entire Northeast. The helicopters can be grounded there overnight and can be put to use for commercial sorties for civilian passengers at frequent intervals to different destinations in all the eight states of Northeast. He said that this will give the civilians, the freedom to plan their movement as per their requirement and priority, and not be constrained by the availability of a routine aircraft flight.

Dr Jitendra Singh said that discussion can be held with different helicopter companies like Pawan Hans and issues related to equity can be worked out to the mutual advantage of all. Guwahati Airport is connected by regular flights to a number of destinations including Delhi, Kolkata, Jaipur and Bangalore, and therefore, when regular commercial helicopter service gets initiated, passengers from any part of the country or abroad who land at Guwahati airport by a civil aircraft will have the option to take a connecting helicopter flight to a further destination in the region.

Shri Ameising Luikham, Secretary DoNER and other senior officers of the Ministry were also present.

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[Hindustani78]

By Deepshikha Hooda, ET Bureau | 17 Nov, 2015, 04.24AM IST
IAF to have 7 operational Advanced Landing Grounds in Arunachal Pradesh in a month - The Economic Times

NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force is readying to fully operationalise seven Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs) in Arunachal Pradesh after almost two years of repair and reconstruction, a move that promises to provide a major boost to the country's operational capability.


The Rs 720-crore project to develop ALGs got an impetus in 2013, when the state government and the forces witnessed massive construction and development on the Chinese side along the 1,080-km border. The area remains a bone of contention between the Indian and Chinese forces where the line of actual control acts as the de facto border.

"All seven ALGs, except Tawang will be developed by December this year," Air Marshal SB Deo, commanding-in-chief of Western Air Command, told ET. Of the seven ALGs, the one in Walong was inaugurated last month. The rest include ALGs in Mechuka , Vijoynagar, Tuting, Passighat, Ziro and Aalo.

The ALG in Tawang is yet to reach completion, but once it does it will allow for the landing of C-130J Super Hercules, the latest addition to the air force's transport aircraft.

These ALGs will have night landing capabilities that could prove a big asset to the forces manning the borders. These landing grounds will also be used by the civil flights, providing a fillip to infrastructure and tourism in the region.

"The local populations and local government has provided support to a great extent in the venture and this will also provide further impetus for tourism," said Deo. Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha had last month said at a conference that the upgradation of ALGs would enhance the economic development of the Northeastern region.

A similar exercise is being undertaken in Ladakh. Currently the Air Force has one operational ALG at Daulet Beg Oldi. Plans are afoot to develop one ALG at Nyoma and extend the Kargil airfield to enable fighter operations.

 

[Hindustani78]

Sukhois land in Imphal, IAF intensifies sorties along Myanmar border
Ratnadip Choudhury, Guwahati, Nov 18, 2015, DHNS

People residing close to Imphal International Airport at Tuihal were in for a surprise on Tuesday morning when two Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets of the Air Force landed at the airport around 10 am.

While neither the airport authorities Airport Authorities at Tulihal nor the Air Force made any statement on the actual reason for the unscheduled landing, speculations are rife that it may be part of the IAF’s increasing sorties along the India-Myanmar border.

According to Imphal airport sources, the two Su-30 jets stayed at there for around 20 minutes. During its brief stay, the jets were refuelled, source added.

However, the airport authorities denied any request from the jets for emergency landing. Deccan Herald tried several times to get an official word from the Eastern Air Command based at Shillong but wasn’t successful till the time of filing this report.

While some IAF sources held the jets’ landing as part of routine sorties to test-landing in civilian airports like Imphal, some other source said the sorties along the India-China and India-Myanmar borders have been intensified for which the Su-30s stationed at Tezpur and Chabua in Assam are frequently used.

Deccan Herald had earlier reported that the IAF is changing its air defence strategy along the India-Myanmar border. The decision came after June 9, when Indian Special Forces from 21 Para regiment conducted successful surgical strikes at the militant bases along the India-Myanmar border in Manipur and Nagaland.

 

[Hindustani78]

Beefing up its force levels in the northeast to counter China, the Indian Army is all set to deploy a squadron of weaponised Dhruv advanced light helicopters in Assam’s Likabali town
india Updated: Jun 10, 2017 23:39 IST

There are four weapon stations on the helicopter with a turret gun in its nose area. Weaponised Dhruv helicopters are equipped with air-to-air missiles, 70 mm rockets and 20 mm turret guns. (PTI File Photo)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...unter-china/story-Zw1XRqEGaZmKVAhF8JnEtM.html

Beefing up its force levels in the northeast to counter China, the Indian Army is all set to deploy a squadron of weaponised Dhruv advanced light helicopters in Assam’s Likabali town.

This will be the army’s first armed helicopter unit in the region.

India has redoubled its efforts to strengthen its deployments in the eastern sector, with the raising of a new mountain strike corps and stationing of front-line Sukhoi-30 fighter planes. The armed force is also engaged in the reactivation of advanced landing grounds, deploying supersonic cruise missiles and proposed basing of special operations aircraft.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, army sources said the Dhruv Mk-IV squadron with 10 indigenously-built helicopters was likely to be functional in two to three months, as part of an overarching plan to scale up the force’s offensive capabilities in the eastern sector.

There are four weapon stations on the helicopter with a turret gun in its nose area. Weaponised Dhruv helicopters are equipped with air-to-air missiles, 70 mm rockets and 20 mm turret guns.

Newer variants are being equipped with anti-tank guided missiles, infrared jammers and obstacle avoidance systems.

The army’s aviation wing has an armed chopper squadron near Jodhpur and another unit is coming up in one of the northern states.

The army is speeding up a new mountain strike corps whose raising was kicked off in January 2014 in West Bengal’s Panagarh.

Aimed at countering China in the northeast, the government will spend around 40,000 crore on the new corps, 17 Corps, which is likely to be fully operational by 2025.

The corps will be equipped with M777s ultra light-weighed howitzers ordered from the United States in November 2016 under a $750-million contract. The contract is for 145 M777s.

Of these, 25 ready-built weapons will be supplied by the United States of America (USA) over the next two years and the remaining 120 howitzers will be produced in the country under the Modi government’s ambitious Make in India initiative.

Manufactured by Britain’s defence and aerospace company, BAE Systems, the guns will be built in India in collaboration with Mahindra Defence. The 155 mm/39-caliber howitzers have been bought to increase the army’s capabilities in high altitude

Last August, India cleared the deployment of a special version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles in the north-east.

Weeks after the Indian government cleared the new BrahMos regiment at a cost of 4,300 crore, China warned that such a move would have “a negative influence” on stability along the border.

 

[Chanakyaa]

Thanx for the Articles bro !