IAF has enhanced India’s deterrent and coercive posture in Ladakh

[The Maverick]

 

[SBUS-CXK]

I like India to have their air force on the border.

 

[Dalit]

Indians are a stupid bunch. I love it how they always underestimate their foes, but get a bloody nose on the battlefield.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Indians are a stupid bunch. I love it how they always underestimate their foes, but get a bloody nose on the battlefield.

You can't say that. India has deployed a large number of fighters on the border. Then tell us the location with news (of course, we don't need Indian news, we have Beidou navigation). It makes Indians laugh. And, we're happy, too.

 

[NAVDEEP DHALIWAL]

Lol news are shit in India. Both countries know where the planes are through satellite, you can't hide planes in this age.

 

[PakPrinciples]

India is a weaker power? What an anti-national.

The next article will be about how the author was lynched for suggesting such a thing.

All the cheerleaders should understand ,if china had the capacity to do even 50% of what you guys think China is capable of ,they would have done something by now.CCP cannot fight a war

Yet surprisingly India can't do much it thinks it's capable of but goes to fight wars anyways.

The Chinese are different from India, they plan things out. They don't rush over international boundaries and military demarcation lines only to get shot down and humiliated.

 

[The Maverick]

The next article will be about how the author was lynched for suggesting such a thing.



Yet surprisingly India can't do much it thinks it's capable of but goes to fight wars anyways.

The Chinese are different from India, they plan things out. They don't rush over international boundaries and military demarcation lines only to get shot down and humiliated.

you mean like kargil.99
saichen 1984
or east pakistan 1971
Burma in ww2

our record speaks for itself

love to hear the Pakistani record,

 

[GHALIB]

IAF has enhanced India’s deterrent and coercive posture in Ladakh
Whatever transpires on the ground during the coming weeks, the aerospace segment of deterrence, intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance must act as the strategic establishment’s eyes and first responder in any future responses along the LAC, particularly in Ladakh.

Written by Arjun Subramaniam | Updated: November 23, 2020 8:40:52 am

An IAF jet in Leh amid the prolonged India-China face-off. (PTI/File)

After almost two decades, the wider citizenry has been exposed to several facets of how India’s armed forces are deployed in warlike conditions in Eastern Ladakh. The deliberate and decisive deployment of the Indian Army, with its entire range of combat and engineering capabilities including tanks, towed heavy artillery guns, special forces and hardy troops in protective winter gear, has sent a strong message to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). An even more deterrent signal has been the willingness of the Indian Army to occupy tactically advantageous heights along the north and south banks of Pangang Tso. It has forced the Chinese to reevaluate their strategic game-plan, which was expected to unfold by the time winter set in. This strategic pause has helped the Indian Army dig in along the LAC and consolidate its deterrent posture.

However, what has slipped under the radar is the massive effort by the Indian Air Force in enabling, supporting and complementing this effort, both in real terms as well as coercive posturing. Never has so much load and so many personnel been flown into Ladakh by the IAF, not even in 1962. The skies over Ladakh now reverberate with the sound of Sukhois, MiG-29s, Rafales, C-17s, C-130s, Chinooks and Apaches as Leh emerges as among the busiest IAF airfields. Images of Special Forces training with aviation elements of the Army and the IAF in the rugged terrain bear testimony to the improving synergy between the two services.

For decades, the airspace over Ladakh has remained muted with only the bare minimum transport and helicopter support being undertaken for sustenance, stocking and casualty evacuation. Lulled and even intimidated for decades by the strictures imposed on it by the various border protocols and confidence-building measures, Sub-Sector North and Eastern Ladakh were literally quasi no-fly zones for IAF fighters. Whatever little fighter flying comprised mainly of Combat Air Patrols over Siachen and some familiarisation in other parts of Ladakh.


The government seems to have realised two important facets of any future limited conflict scenarios across the LAC, particularly in Ladakh. The first is given the dense and almost mirror-image ground deployments of the Indian Army and the PLA, force-on-force engagements are not likely to lead to any decisive outcomes that could result in an alteration of status quo for either side. With human capacity significantly diminished by altitude and terrain, air power can cause significant psychological degradation in an adversary. The Kargil conflict was a case in point.

Second, given that the PLA’s capacity to absorb punishment in a limited but high intensity conflict is untested in recent times, the ability of airpower to cause significant attrition and destruction of combat potential must be factored in. This is essential if a weaker power (India) is to seize the initiative early on in a conflict to shape a desirable outcome. Given the sparsely populated battle-space, both precision attacks and area bombing are not likely to cause any collateral damage, thereby allowing airpower to operate without any major shackles.


Modern air power is all about targeting and targeting is all about building a proper intelligence mosaic. The principal medium to create this mosaic is space and the platforms used are imaging, infrared, communication and navigation-enabling satellites. It will take decades for India to match China’s superiority in this realm. While India has wisely chosen not to engage in a space race with China, there is a need to accelerate the military segment of India’s space programme. The creation of a Defence Space Agency is a step in this direction. In the meantime, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and other air-based surveillance systems need to fill the gap. Space-based communication and signal intelligence satellites are key to create an electronic orbat (order of battle) of the adversary.

Whatever transpires on the ground during the coming weeks, the aerospace segment of deterrence, intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance must act as the strategic establishment’s eyes and first responder in any future responses along the LAC, particularly in Ladakh. Air and space power are extensions of the same continuum and that ought to be reason enough to invest more effort and resources in sharpening them.

IAF has enhanced India’s deterrent and coercive posture in Ladakh

Whatever transpires on the ground during the coming weeks, the aerospace segment of deterrence, intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance must act as the strategic establishment’s eyes and first responder in any future responses along the LAC, particularly in Ladakh.

indianexpress.com

Now China is Doomed. Mighty IAF with latest dodgers and fast runners from air combat is in Ladakh.

forget china
enemies of india are under depression.

 

[khansaheeb]

IAF has enhanced India’s deterrent and coercive posture in Ladakh
Whatever transpires on the ground during the coming weeks, the aerospace segment of deterrence, intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance must act as the strategic establishment’s eyes and first responder in any future responses along the LAC, particularly in Ladakh.

Written by Arjun Subramaniam | Updated: November 23, 2020 8:40:52 am

An IAF jet in Leh amid the prolonged India-China face-off. (PTI/File)

After almost two decades, the wider citizenry has been exposed to several facets of how India’s armed forces are deployed in warlike conditions in Eastern Ladakh. The deliberate and decisive deployment of the Indian Army, with its entire range of combat and engineering capabilities including tanks, towed heavy artillery guns, special forces and hardy troops in protective winter gear, has sent a strong message to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). An even more deterrent signal has been the willingness of the Indian Army to occupy tactically advantageous heights along the north and south banks of Pangang Tso. It has forced the Chinese to reevaluate their strategic game-plan, which was expected to unfold by the time winter set in. This strategic pause has helped the Indian Army dig in along the LAC and consolidate its deterrent posture.

However, what has slipped under the radar is the massive effort by the Indian Air Force in enabling, supporting and complementing this effort, both in real terms as well as coercive posturing. Never has so much load and so many personnel been flown into Ladakh by the IAF, not even in 1962. The skies over Ladakh now reverberate with the sound of Sukhois, MiG-29s, Rafales, C-17s, C-130s, Chinooks and Apaches as Leh emerges as among the busiest IAF airfields. Images of Special Forces training with aviation elements of the Army and the IAF in the rugged terrain bear testimony to the improving synergy between the two services.

For decades, the airspace over Ladakh has remained muted with only the bare minimum transport and helicopter support being undertaken for sustenance, stocking and casualty evacuation. Lulled and even intimidated for decades by the strictures imposed on it by the various border protocols and confidence-building measures, Sub-Sector North and Eastern Ladakh were literally quasi no-fly zones for IAF fighters. Whatever little fighter flying comprised mainly of Combat Air Patrols over Siachen and some familiarisation in other parts of Ladakh.


The government seems to have realised two important facets of any future limited conflict scenarios across the LAC, particularly in Ladakh. The first is given the dense and almost mirror-image ground deployments of the Indian Army and the PLA, force-on-force engagements are not likely to lead to any decisive outcomes that could result in an alteration of status quo for either side. With human capacity significantly diminished by altitude and terrain, air power can cause significant psychological degradation in an adversary. The Kargil conflict was a case in point.

Second, given that the PLA’s capacity to absorb punishment in a limited but high intensity conflict is untested in recent times, the ability of airpower to cause significant attrition and destruction of combat potential must be factored in. This is essential if a weaker power (India) is to seize the initiative early on in a conflict to shape a desirable outcome. Given the sparsely populated battle-space, both precision attacks and area bombing are not likely to cause any collateral damage, thereby allowing airpower to operate without any major shackles.


Modern air power is all about targeting and targeting is all about building a proper intelligence mosaic. The principal medium to create this mosaic is space and the platforms used are imaging, infrared, communication and navigation-enabling satellites. It will take decades for India to match China’s superiority in this realm. While India has wisely chosen not to engage in a space race with China, there is a need to accelerate the military segment of India’s space programme. The creation of a Defence Space Agency is a step in this direction. In the meantime, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and other air-based surveillance systems need to fill the gap. Space-based communication and signal intelligence satellites are key to create an electronic orbat (order of battle) of the adversary.

Whatever transpires on the ground during the coming weeks, the aerospace segment of deterrence, intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance must act as the strategic establishment’s eyes and first responder in any future responses along the LAC, particularly in Ladakh. Air and space power are extensions of the same continuum and that ought to be reason enough to invest more effort and resources in sharpening them.

IAF has enhanced India’s deterrent and coercive posture in Ladakh

Whatever transpires on the ground during the coming weeks, the aerospace segment of deterrence, intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance must act as the strategic establishment’s eyes and first responder in any future responses along the LAC, particularly in Ladakh.

indianexpress.com

Now China is Doomed. Mighty IAF with latest dodgers and fast runners from air combat is in Ladakh.

Every defeat is a victory for the Indians. Seems like after so many defeats they have lost the meaning of victory.

 

[Ghost Hobbit]

uch it thinks it's capable of but goes to fight wars anyways.

The Chinese are different from India, they plan things out. They don't rush over international boundaries and military demarcation lines only to get shot down and humiliated.

how strange you should say this when we have won most wars except one....

 

[Rollno21]

The next article will be about how the author was lynched for suggesting such a thing.



Yet surprisingly India can't do much it thinks it's capable of but goes to fight wars anyways.

The Chinese are different from India, they plan things out. They don't rush over international boundaries and military demarcation lines only to get shot down and humiliated.

Dude pla can't fight ,they have left posts and ran when attacked by groups on UN missions,they make all the noise that's all ,you guys have high hopes on them ,find me one incident in last 40 years when pla has escalated when the opposition stood it's ground.just one

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Dude pla can't fight ,they have left posts and ran when attacked by groups on UN missions,they make all the noise that's all ,you guys have high hopes on them ,find me one incident in last 40 years when pla has escalated when the opposition stood it's ground.just one

The indian army is rubbish, and at least 5 indian navy soldiers have been kidnapped by pirates.

The indian army will only surrender and flee! Remember. There is no Bollywood on the battlefield!

 

[Rollno21]

The indian army is rubbish, and at least 5 indian navy soldiers have been kidnapped by pirates.

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The indian army will only surrender and flee! Remember. There is no Bollywood on the battlefield!

Do you know to read or just post for the sake of it

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Do you know to read or just post for the sake of it

You should know that. There is no Bollywood on the battlefield.

 

[Rollno21]

You should know that. There is no Bollywood on the battlefield.

Yup it's not like rolling tanks over unarmed Chinese .
We all know you guys are bots and we don't get paid for posting.quote if you understood my previous post