India to Construct 108 Missile-Proof Hangars Along China Border

[ashok321]

New Delhi — The Indian government has cleared a proposal for constructing next-generation hardened shelters for aircraft of the Indian Air Force deployed at the eastern and northeastern airfields that border China. The hangars are designed by the state-owned Defence Research and Development Organisation.


The Indian Defense Ministry will initially release $150 million of the total estimated cost of $750 million for the proposed shelters, which can withstand missiles and bombs of up to 2,000 pounds.


The proposed shelters would dot forward areas including Leh, Ladakh and the northeastern states and would also cover the newly built advanced landing grounds — Tuting, Mechuka, Along, Passighat, Vijaynagar, and Ziro — along with the India-China border.


Last year, a parliamentary panel on defense raised concerns over the lack of availability of hardened shelters for frontline aircraft such as the Su-30MKI. "The IAF is already short of planes, and worse than that is, hardened shelters are not available for even the limited number of aircraft that is available with the service…The committee desires that there should not be any delay in execution, as such delays have become a common feature of all the projects," the committee warned in 2016.


The Indian Air Force has already built new weapon storage areas and labs in large numbers in all the forward bases.

It constructed 16 shelters for Su-30 aircraft between 2004 and 2007 capable of withstanding 1,000-pound explosives.

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[Bindas]

A Rafale costs about 750 cr. They should at least put it in a 150 cr bunker which will last for at least 50 years or more. India should create 30 bunkers every year for its fighter jets. In 10 years will have 300 bunkers. But they should survive a 2000 pound explosive or more. Today precision bombs are maxed out at 2000 pounds but that will change.

 

[Centurion2016]

108 hardened bunkers

Is thst one plane per bunker or more