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India beefs up China front with UAVs copters to monitor PLA NEW DELHI: India is now deploying spy drones or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and light observation helicopters along the borders with China to keep a hawk-eye on the stepped-up activities of People s Liberation Army. The construction of over 5500 permanent defences and bunkers along the borders is now being speeded up to ensure their completion within four to five years under the Rs 9243 crore military infrastructure development project approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security for the Eastern Army Command. Sukhoi-30MKI fighters are already being based in IAF airbases like Tezpur and Chabua. Army Aviation bases in Assam are also now being upgraded with seven helicopters and four Israeli Searcher-II UAVs already been deployed there a defence ministry source said. The Army is also pushing for a mountain strike corps after having raised two new mountain infantry divisions. The new divisions with 1260 officers and 35011 soldiers, have their HQs in Zakama (56 Div) in Nagaland and Missamari (71 Div) in Assam. Though quite belated all these plans are meant to strategically counter Chinas massive build-up of military infrastructure all along the 4057-km Line of Actual Control (LAC) over the last two decades. A flurry of high-level meetings in the last two-three months which included a top military briefing to PM Manmohan Singh have dealt on the dire need to boost Indias military infrastructure strike capabilities and operational logistics along the LAC. Incidentally with five fully-operational airbases an extensive rail network and over 58000-km of roads in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) China can now move more than 30 divisions (each with over 15000 soldiers) at their launch pads on LAC in double-quick time outnumbering Indian forces by at least three-is-to-one. Back |
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