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India airlifts military hospital to Tajikistan



If you put some pressure on brain cells you will see some points in the same news.

1. India already has over 100 Indian military personnel stationed at the Ayni airbase in Tajikistan

2. Tajik President Emomali Rahmon’s visit to India last August, during which the long-standing bilateral partnership was elevated to a strategic partnership

3. two of the newly-acquired C-130J "Super Hercules" aircraft of the IAF airlifted medical stores, equipment and 55 personnel

4. Indian Army, IAF and Border Roads Organisation personnel had worked hard to upgrade the airbase, which includes extension of the runway and construction of three aircraft hangars, an air-control tower and perimeter fencing around the base, at a cost of over Rs 100 crore.



a.) The sudden rush or movement of military personals will raise a alarm bell we are taking it step by step.

b.) It will be a RAW base to look into our interests in Afghanistan, pakistan, Central Asia.

c.) The air base is now equipped to land and base any type of modern aircrafts as its runway is extended, hangers are build while its fencing will make it secure and secrete from general eyes.

d.) When India will have enough Su30MKIs/Rafale/Mig 30 to spare them for this base we will build a full fledged fighter aircraft base.

It may not be a attack base but it will divert the assets of PAF/PA and make them thin at our borders.

Stupid Indian all you did was regurgitate the article, you didn't and failed to refute a single point.

1. India already has over 100 Indian military personnel stationed at the Ayni airbase in Tajikistan

100 is futile, it is nothing in terms of effectiveness or "geo-strategic" plans as the article discusses.

3. two of the newly-acquired C-130J "Super Hercules" aircraft of the IAF airlifted medical stores, equipment and 55 personnel

That isn't going to give you any "strategic advantage" in Central Asia or a foothold in Central Asia. C-130J is a transport plane, not like it's used for offensive operations, simply transport of personnel and cargo.

4. Indian Army, IAF and Border Roads Organisation personnel had worked hard to upgrade the airbase, which includes extension of the runway and construction of three aircraft hangars, an air-control tower and perimeter fencing around the base, at a cost of over Rs 100 crore.

Yes, because the air strip or "military outpost" is a dormant, low tech, primitive air strip for years and that's why the Tajiks leased it for a high-price to a stupid country like India, making the Indians think they were getting a "foothold" in Central Asia. Having an air-control tower, perimeter fencing, three aircraft hangars isn't giving you "strategic" advantage, it is more of a show piece than anything else. Unless, India decides to concentrate offensive hardware to Ayni AF base.


d.) When India will have enough Su30MKIs/Rafale/Mig 30 to spare them for this base we will build a full fledged fighter aircraft base.

Future prediction, you don't really know that, you act as if you make the decisions for the Indian Government.


It may not be a attack base but it will divert the assets of PAF/PA and make them thin at our borders.

It just makes for an easier target, this base is a fruit for picking.
 
Don't get too excited you are not being given a "foothold" in Central Asia, you are just renting a lousy low-tech once abandon air strip in the middle of Tajikistan. Tajikistan on their part made a smart move leasing the abandon strip to a customer-country stupid enough to pay for it thinking it was giving them "geo-strategic" advantage.


The "foothold" you are looking for is still in your behind... :lol: pathetic Indians.

Nice to know that that is what you think. I am sure that that is what the Indian military wants you to think.

Yes, we are simply renting a useless base there to go have tea and biscuits once in a while. I'm sure you should feel happy about that.

Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs and making decisions according to what might be pleasing to imagine instead of by appealing to evidence, rationality, or reality. (From Wikipedia.)

BTW, you might want to respond to people without name calling like "moron", "goon", "pathetic Indians" etc if you want a proper discussion. Just saying.
 
That isn't going to give you any "strategic advantage" in Central Asia or a foothold in Central Asia. C-130J is a transport plane, not like it's used for offensive operations, simply transport of personnel and cargo.
The C-130Js the IAF is procuring are dedicated Spec Ops platforms so are inherently strategic in nature.


But yes, the real strategic lift will come in a few months when the IAF receives its first C-17.
 
Why has India quietly airlifted a military hospital to Tajikistan? They should have made a noise about it instead. One can't keep such things secret.

And whom are they hiding this from? Pakistan? If so, why? Probably getting prepared for the coming war in Afghanistan after the American withdrawal?
 
Don't get too excited you are not being given a "foothold" in Central Asia, you are just renting a lousy low-tech once abandon air strip in the middle of Tajikistan. Tajikistan on their part made a smart move leasing the abandon strip to a customer-country stupid enough to pay for it thinking it was giving them "geo-strategic" advantage.

Sir, I still can't get the reason for your paranoia.
Presence of military personnel doesn't mean India wishes to invade a nation. the article clearly says central Asian nations may play a vital role in future energy security and it may be likely that India gets some mining or exploration rights.
Neither India or Tajikistan has stated why Indian military is present here, so let us not draw any conclusion about their presence being hostile to any nation.
As far as Tajikistan taking India for a ride, well if it serves Indian purpose, we will take refuge of the fact that there are no free lunches.
The "foothold" you are looking for is still in your behind... :lol: pathetic Indians.
At my age, it doesn't look good to use such a language, and i don't know your age, but trust me doesn't look good on a senior member like you as well.
 
The C-130Js the IAF is procuring are dedicated Spec Ops platforms so are inherently strategic in nature.


But yes, the real strategic lift will come in a few months when the IAF receives its first C-17.

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Yup.. Coming soon to an Airstrip near you!
 
I think India has covered Pakistan from east, west and north. With an eye in the sky.

If Mig 29 can reach Islamabad from Tajik in 4 min. How fast can it reach Islamabad from Kashmir base ??
 
An old post from Livefist about the IAF's Base in Tajikistan

I did a half-hour show on the Ayni air base in West Tajikistan for Headlines Today last Sunday. The base will be declared ready for operations next month under a trilateral agreement between Tajikistan, Russia and India. Incidentally, the use of the base is classified, which is why both the Tajik and Indian governments deny that India's role is anything more than a developer of the base's runway. The slides you see here are taken from a classified presentation that the IAF was given late 2006, shortly before the base was completed. Here's the shortened text of the special report I did for the channel:

Once called the white elephant of Asia, India's strategic aspirations have now finally come of age. The country's first military base in a foreign country will be declared ready for use next month. Welcome to Ayni, Tajikistan, India's first military outpost in a foreign land. Bare minutes from Tajikistan's border with war-torn Afghanistan, the base gives India a footprint for the first time ever in the region's troubled history. But why here in alien and landlocked Tajikistan has India chosen to inaugurate the foreign military base it will have access to?

On the face of it, India's entry into Tajikistan is a diplomatic move to help develop the country and the region. But then again, no foreign policy venture is guided by selflessness. Over the years, the Ayni air base will allow India to respond rapidly to the entire spectrum of conventional and unconventional threats from the typically unstable Afghanistan-Pakistan arc, including events like the hijacking of flight IC-814. Even more significantly, it gives India a restricted but crucial ability to deliver special air and ground forces into conflict zones any time they are required. That apart, India definitely wants a piece of Central Asia's promising gas and energy reserves.

The government has asked for a formal and binding mandate from the Cabinet Committee on Security to conclude the agreement with Tajikistan next month. Once that happens, the Indian Army and Air Force will begin moving limited quanities of trainer aircraft and equipment to Tajikistan. The base is a legacy of the former NDA government, but will shortly be open to Indian use. And that may be a reason to feel patriotic, sure, because this is India emphatically saying that its interests lie well beyond its borders.

The Ayni base had an Indian Army hospital that was used extensively during the Afghanistan operations in 2002. Subsequently, Indian military engineers from the Border Roads Organisation have extended and relaid the runway and made it fighting fit for combat logistics and war-fighting operations, if ever the need arises.

The Russians have given India the option of sending a squadron of Mi-17 helicopters to Ayni, with a detachment of pilots and support personnel. With Russia and Uzbekistan just next door, logistics support has been assured. Russia has also offered to uild fighter maintenance infrastructure at Ayni with India. The option will be made available to India to base a squadron of MiG-29 fighters at the base, but this will not be in the near future, though the implications of this are huge -- Indian fighters can be scrambled at a moment's notice for operations anywhere in the area. With mid-air refuelling support promised by the Russians, their reach will be immense.

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Livefist: India's Base at Ayni, Tajikistan


Near the tiny city of Farkhor, lies India’s first and only overseas military airbase. Farkhor is a city in the landlocked country of Tajikistan. The airbase is mainly operated by the Indian Air Force, though, it is done in collaboration with the Tajikistan Air Force.

Before the Indian Air Force took over the airbase, it was in a battered condition. Between 1996 and 1997, the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) began arbitrating with the Tajikistan government regarding the use of the airbase to help the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in Afghanistan with supplies and also gathering intelligence. During that time, India was operating a small military hospital to treat the injured Afghan Northern Alliance soldiers It was here that former Northern Alliance leader and ‘Lion of Panjshir’ Ahmed Shah Massoud was treated for his fatal injuries from the suicide bomb attack on September 9,2001.

The base was used to repair the MI series of helicopters belonging Northern Alliance during the Afghan war. This was done by the technicians of the Aviation Research Center (ARC). It was in 2002 that India admitted its intentions to set up an airbase in Farkhor. India used its Russian ties to secure the airbase. In 2003 a private builder was awarded $ 10 million tender to restore the airbase. But the builder backed-off and India’s premier road agency, Boarder Road Organization (BRO) stepped in and completed the construction of the base in 2005.

The presence of the Indian Air Force in Central Asia has implications on India’s relationship with countries like China, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan already fears being encircled during future wars by India. The Indian presence at Farkhor has also increased depth to India’s military range of strike to operation. Despite negotiations for the withdrawal of international security forces in Afghanistan by 2014, India plans to revive the Farkhor Airbase with intentions of upgrading the defense relationship between the two countries. In addition, India intends to start an Indian-Central Asian University in Bishkek, an e-technology network just like in Africa and even broadcast Russian dubbed Bollywood movies across Central Asia. Looks like India is ambitious in proving that it is as strong a power as China is in Central Asia.

After its completion, a squadron of MiG 29 aircraft would be stationed at the base. As of January 2013, the base still looks untouched, the Google Maps show the runway in bad condition and no visible air force assets, it’s safe to say that the air base looks deserted for some time now. Tell us what you think about an overseas Indian Air Force bas

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http://www.defenceaviation.com/2008/01/farkhor-an-indian-air-force-base-in-tajikistan.html
 
I think India has covered Pakistan from east, west and north. With an eye in the sky.

If Mig 29 can reach Islamabad from Tajik in 4 min. How fast can it reach Islamabad from Kashmir base ??

Very quickly as well. But the difference is that pakistan has heavy air defence in the broder with kashmir, facing India. All its air bases as well as ground based air defence assets like radars and SAMs. But its other borders are sparsely defended. That is because they know that aerial threats will only come from its east. But if they have a threat from the west too, they will have to beef up defences there. That is why mushy was so concerned - not because tajikistan is closer than Indian bases in kashmir, but because of the fact that they will have to spend heavily to place radars and other assets on the other sside as well.

So another airbase or two on the Indian side won't be as much a matter of concern as one hostile airbase in tajikistan. Mind you, all this is speculation, there has never been any word officially about what exactly India is upto there.
 
Very quickly as well. But the difference is that pakistan has heavy air defence in the broder with kashmir, facing India. All its air bases as well as ground based air defence assets like radars and SAMs. But its other borders are sparsely defended. That is because they know that aerial threats will only come from its east. But if they have a threat from the west too, they will have to beef up defences there. That is why mushy was so concerned - not because tajikistan is closer than Indian bases in kashmir, but because of the fact that they will have to spend heavily to place radars and other assets on the other sside as well.

So another airbase or two on the Indian side won't be as much a matter of concern as one hostile airbase in tajikistan. Mind you, all this is speculation, there has never been any word officially about what exactly India is upto there.

The Pakistanis love to fantasize about a "two-front war" with India when/if hostilities break out. They know that the only way Pakistan won't face defeat within hours is if the Indian military has to hold back most of its military in preparation for conflict with China.

India is, apparently, fighting fire with fire.
 
The Pakistanis love to fantasize about a "two-front war" with India when/if hostilities break out. They know that the only way Pakistan won't face defeat within hours is if the Indian military has to hold back most of its military in preparation for conflict with China.

India is, apparently, fighting fire with fire.

If the rumours about Tajik airbases are true, then it is possible that pakistanis will get the two front war they yearn for so badly. Except that it will be them fighting on two fronts.:D

That possibility is more likely than China fighting India at the behest of pakistan.
 

Lol... so a guy speaking in hindi is a big deal? as for "strategic partnership crap article... lol is krygyzstan a province of tajikistan?

India doesnt train tajikistani forces though... and the "base" with jets and helis is also a rumour!
 
Lol... so a guy speaking in hindi is a big deal? as for "strategic partnership crap article... lol is krygyzstan a province of tajikistan?

India doesnt train tajikistani forces though... and the "base" with jets and helis is also a rumour!

India trains Afghan army officers, which should be much more of a concern for you, rather than Tajikistan. Whether wee train tajik officers or not doesn't really matter to pakistan. But we train Afghan officers to fight on your ideological soulmates, the odious talibunnies.

And by the way, you are wrong here too. India has trained Tajik military officers at NDA and IMA. India is also training their air force cadets. Here is the link of their embassy:

http://www.tajikembassy.in/taji-india-relations.html

So far, 35 Tajik military cadets and 67 young officers underwent training at National Defence Academy in Pune, Indian Military Academy in Dehradun and other training establishments and the first batch of Tajik officers graduating out of NDA and IMA returned to Tajikistan in June 2007 and were inducted into the Tajik Defence forces.
 
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