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By B. Raman

Has the Chinese Army (PLA) created for itself a capability for helicopter-borne operations across Tibet in Arunachal Pradesh?

2.That is a question that needs to be examined by Indian analysts and experts in the light of a report carried by the “PLA Daily” on July 12, 2012, which is annexed.

3. It makes three important points:

The PLA Army Aviation Force, which was initially raised for giving ground support to the Army in its operations, has now been upgraded to enable it to play an independent assault role.

The combat areas of the PLA army aviation force have expanded from plain to plateau.

As a result, the PLA army troops possess the capability for launching air-to-ground precision strike in high altitude areas.

(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Associate, Chennai Centre For China Studies. E-Mail: seventyone2@gmail.com . Twitter: @SORBONNE75)

ANNEXURE

PLA army aviation force shifts from support type to main-battle-assault one

As an air-confrontation drill conducted by an army aviation force under the information-based conditions was unveiled at a place in the south of China’s Yangtze River on the day, June 11 is a day destined to be remembered in the history of the army aviation force of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). A PLA army aviation brigade, which was just upgraded from a PLA army aviation regiment, dispatched the PLA’s new-type helicopters for the first time to participate in the actual-troop drill and made its debut by dispatching the PLA’s largest helicopter fleet for emergency combat drill before tens of PLA generals.

The troop unit’s shift from a “pupa” to a “butterfly” is a miniature of the transformation and development of the PLA army aviation force. According to the briefing, after it was put under a group army from an army aviation regiment directly under a military area command in 2003, the brigade initially realized the shift from the support type to the main-battle-assault one in its over-nine-year transformation and development period, becoming the “iron fist in the air” in the joint strikes for victories.

In the summer of last year, a ground-and-air joint combat drill was conducted on the snow-covered plateau, marking that the combat areas of the PLA army aviation force have expanded from plain to plateau. As a result, the PLA army troops possess the capability for launching the air-to-ground precision strike in the high altitude areas.

The “lying on the ground” army troops really begin to fly, said a leader of the Army Aviation Department of the PLA General Staff Headquarters. He added, “The ‘two reductions and two additions’, namely, the establishment of the PLA Army Aviation Force soon after the one-million disarmament in 1985 and the establishment of the PLA Army Aviation Academy after the 500,000 disarmament in 1999, allowed the army aviation force building to take the “express train” of our times. As a result, the army aviation force has gradually developed into a powerful combat force with air-ground integration and air-sea integration capabilities.”

Today, the PLA army aviation force has established its own operation theory systems supported by the 19 monographs, which are developed from scratch and from weak to strong, and its main plane-model development realized the leap from the imported ones to the independent innovation and mass-production ones.

Editor:Zhang Tao

Is China Creating A Capability for Copter-Borne Operations Across Tibet?
 
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Brahmos is present to counter every move of Dragon.

LCH will be a key changer as well.
You pray to Brahmos to save you from China? :rofl:

China has already launched our attack!

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Brahmos is not the answer for everything.The LCH can be very effective against heli bourne offensives though.But the most important thing to counter an air bourne assault is to deploy an consistent and overlapping network of long range radars and SAM batteries.Luckily our armed forces have identified the gaps and doing their best to fill it by ordering 24 Elta El/M 2084 radars,12 LRDE MPRs,32 Rohini 3d CARs,AWACS and SAMs.
 
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Brahmos is present to counter every move of Dragon.

LCH will be a key changer as well.
lol as always, a simpleton Indian thinks a Russian knok-off missile is the answer to 'everything'````and an underpowered foreign made LCH is 'key changer'````3 years old may have more common senses than you
 
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It's more like this happening the other way round.

Will china be able to defence Chengdu or Lhasa from an Indian air invasion (assuming the battle is localized to these areas; nuclear threats and forces don't come into the picture).

It's good keep the threat on .. and keep the chinese on tenderhooks.
 
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Its common knowledge that chinese helis use ripped off PW engine.. I don't think an under powered crap like that can ever mount a heli assault ever.... rather it would be flying for cover in face of Apache Longbows :devil:
 
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^ LOL at india's imaginary air power :rofl:

What happened to the boasting about MMRCA? No money.... must beg?

Just shows that indians can't achieve anything but verbal defecation.
 
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^ LOL at india's imaginary air power :rofl:

What happened to the boasting about MMRCA? No money.... must beg?

Just shows that indians can't achieve anything but verbal defecation.
Hey Chanlleged buddy :D if you don't know "verbal defecation" it's something you do here on PDF :D why blame Indians for that ???

lol as always, a simpleton Indian thinks a Russian knok-off missile is the answer to 'everything'````and an underpowered foreign made LCH is 'key changer'````3 years old may have more common senses than you
Even Russian knok ??? - knock Off is everything in Chinese cheap copy paste technique. Do you want us to remind you the list of all those ???
 
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India's Response capability:

1.Indian Army already has a mature Logistic capability with the Ashok leyland stallion 4x4 5ton trucks forming the back bone with almost 60000 strong fleet.

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note:There are several other high altitude capable truck in service

Ambhibious Rampar 4 ton trucks

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Gypsy

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Mahendra

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Completely Air liftable and Ambhibious BMP-2 sarath

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Air liftable T-72 "ajeya"(t-72s have been airlifted using IL-72s previously.To my knowledge the t-90s have not been airlifted till now. However with the induction of c-17s the airlifting of T-90 and Arjuns must be possible)

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Windy 505

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note the milans

Kartik ABL Bridge laying tank

its an indigenous development and is one of the widest bridge laying tanks in the world.Can support any vehicle in service in India.
 
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^ LOL at india's imaginary air power :rofl:

Now start LOLing your own state ... after re-reading the thread title.

It says, "Is china creating .....?"

First of all, it implies that it is creating... doesn't have the capability to produce helicopter force, as yet !!!

On the other hand, India already has air capability to attack, both with helicopter and combat aircraft.

Second, there is also an "Is...." prefix. So it is not known, if china "is" trying to create or not.

Thirdly, even if they manage to "create", Indian air defence is already there in the form of Akash missiles and Brahmos against surface concentrations.

The question is can china do anything against an Indian counter attack on Chengdu / Chongqing or maybe Kunming?
 
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India's response capability:

High altitude capable HAL Dhruv and HAL rudra (note:Rudra is not in service yet)

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HAL Lancer and HAL cheetah

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India's possible response's

High altitude capable MIL Mi-17s

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Mi-8

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This is all media propaganda, we are talking about a possibility of war between 3rd most powerful nation with 4th most powerful nation (in terms of military strength) on earth, preparation for defending one's country is one thing but starting a war is totally a different ball game, two most populous countries + two fastest growing economies in the world with nuclear weapons capability!! war is a thing which not only these two countries but world as a whole can ill afford.

so i think in the near term, possibility of China-India war (even a limited one) is nil.
 
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