India holds military exercises close to China border

[rama]

NEW DELHI: India has begun major military exercises close to the Chinese border involving Special Forces of the Army and frontline fighters such as Su-30MKI as part of the endeavour to be battle ready in the inhospitable mountainous region. Code-named as 'Pralay' (devastation), the day-and-night exercises are mainly dominated by the aerial manoeuvres with support by ground forces.

The four-day exercises in the north-eastern sector, including Arunachal Pradesh, began yesterday, coinciding with the official India visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jeichi here. China has been laying claim over entire Arunachal Pradesh and voices objections whenever any senior union minister visits the state. IAF spokesman said the exercises were taking place "along the Brahmaputra river and eastern region" and "involves joint Army-Air Force operations by Eastern Air Command and Army Eastern Command."

The exercise is aimed at testing the combat potential of the IAF in various roles such as air defence, ground support operations, counter air operations and electronic warfare, he said. Besides the frontline Su-30MKI, Mirage-2000, MiG-29 and Jaguar fighter aircraft, IAF would be flying the strategic lift C-130J transport plane along with AN-32 and the AWACS.

"Apart from war fighting in the skies, various ground contingencies related to Air Force operations are being tested," he said, adding that lessons learnt from this exercise would be incorporated in future operational strategies.

Army would also be using the remotely piloted aircraft for the exercise.


source: TOI

 

[T90TankGuy]

two similar threads opened . Mods please merge the two.

 

[boris]

NEW DELHI: India has begun major military exercises close to the Chinese border involving Special Forces of the Army and frontline fighters such as Su-30MKI as part of the endeavour to be battle ready in the inhospitable mountainous region. Code-named as 'Pralay' (devastation), the day-and-night exercises are mainly dominated by the aerial manoeuvres with support by ground forces.

The four-day exercises in the north-eastern sector, including Arunachal Pradesh, began yesterday, coinciding with the official India visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jeichi here. China has been laying claim over entire Arunachal Pradesh and voices objections whenever any senior union minister visits the state. IAF spokesman said the exercises were taking place "along the Brahmaputra river and eastern region" and "involves joint Army-Air Force operations by Eastern Air Command and Army Eastern Command."

The exercise is aimed at testing the combat potential of the IAF in various roles such as air defence, ground support operations, counter air operations and electronic warfare, he said. Besides the frontline Su-30MKI, Mirage-2000, MiG-29 and Jaguar fighter aircraft, IAF would be flying the strategic lift C-130J transport plane along with AN-32 and the AWACS.

"Apart from war fighting in the skies, various ground contingencies related to Air Force operations are being tested," he said, adding that lessons learnt from this exercise would be incorporated in future operational strategies.

Army would also be using the remotely piloted aircraft for the exercise.


source: TOI

Lovely News.

 

[Major.]

At last its time to show some spine...that to when there Vice President is in India...!!!

 

[Pak47]

China supposed to be scared?

 

[boris]

China supposed to be scared?

No Indian SF,IAF training for every eventuality like any other SF,AF.

 

[HongWu]

Jai hind! I think india is really for some big moves this year.

 

[3Idiots]

Jai hind! I think india is really for some big moves this year.

No big move. There is no need for you to get paranoid.

It's routine business. All forces exercise in peacetime !!!

 

[Rafi]

All of our SIGINT assets are going to be very busy, leave for personnel involved has been cancelled, signal and COMM libraries will be built up and ORBAT of indian forces will be in "real time".

 

[Peshwa]

All of our SIGINT assets are going to be very busy, leave for personnel involved has been cancelled, signal and COMM libraries will be built up and ORBAT of indian forces will be in "real time".

Why do you need all that...Clearly we arent keeping the excercises a secret...

 

[hitenray09]

Army would also be using the remotely piloted aircraft for the exercise.


source: TOI

wanted some enlightenment on the bold part

 

[Raje amar]

Jai hind! I think india is really for some big moves this year.

and why do you think so?
No need, its just a rutin excercise to keep our personals fit, and well within out tetorial boundries.

Good for India as for the first time i am hearing of some army excercise other than deserts of Rajastan.
We need more of such excfercises.

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All of our SIGINT assets are going to be very busy, leave for personnel involved has been cancelled, signal and COMM libraries will be built up and ORBAT of indian forces will be in "real time".

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didnt get you. Did I miss something?

 

[Joe Shearer]

Much ado about nothing.

A country can't stick a few hundred thousand troops in a corner of its frontier with a distinctly unfriendly neighbour which consistently refuses to acknowledge the thousand and one placatory gestures that have been made to it, and then forget about it. In peacetime, armies - all military services - train. Then, once they finish, they train again, and again, and again. That is all that is going on. These combinations of troops and equipment have never been used in such terrain before; a huge amount of work is needed to get everything working smoothly together and what is going on is just the very very beginning.

It hardly needs pointing out, except to the lads and other football fans hanging around, that China has nothing to fear either. Even a cursory look will show that the troops deployed by India may be a step towards building a credible defence, but is nowhere near enough to alarm China, even if the Indian leadership had not been so evidently and clearly laser-focussed on building good relations with China and tapping into that growing power's material success.

While there will always be the odd lunatic who screams and shouts and froths at the mouth at any action taken which deviates from abject self-abnegation to his country's wishes and desires, some are slightly more tolerable than others. Some, less.

Our present lunatic remains at his unpleasant and unbalanced best on this thread. I have yet to see, in two and a half years of his contributions, a single worthwhile post or a single valuable insight into defence matters. It has been the most vulgar and strident abuse every step of the way. Every single step.

A sad representation of a great nation.

 

[Screambowl]

the more you sweat in peace the less you bleed in war. simple