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First AFVs in Ladakh

02 Dec 2020

First AFVs in Ladakh: Air Vice Marshal Erlic Pinto and Air Commodore Shivdev Singh personally directed this operation, bending many rules as they examined the options including many ‘out of the box’, carrying out reconnaissance in Fairchild C-119G Packets of No.12 Squadron from Srinagar which included trial landings at Chushul.

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The Saga of Chushul ALG, 14260 ft. asl

02 Dec 2020

The Saga of Chushul ALG, 14260 ft. asl: By 28 August 1951, Major Sardara Singh took up defensive positions, well dug in, on the route towards Rudok.

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Daulat Beg Oldi DBO, Fulcrum of the Karakorams

01 Dec 2020

Daulat Beg Oldi DBO, Fulcrum of the Karakorams :On 23 July 1962, well over half a century back, an Indian Air Force Fairchild C-119G Packet piloted by Squadron Leader (later Air Marshal) CKS Raje and fitted with an auxiliary jet engine fitted on its dorsal fuselage, made a historic landing at Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO), the highest airstrip in the world.

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The Special Frontier Force SFF Indian Army

07 Oct 2020

The Special Frontier Force SFF Indian Army: The units that comprise the SFF come under direct purview of the Cabinet Secretariat and are operationally tasked by the Army.

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China’s Maritime Awakening by Admiral (R) Arun Prakash

01 Oct 2020

Admiral (R) Arun Prakash: China’s Maritime Awakening: China has never bothered to provide a rationale for its ever-increasing military muscle and a bewildered neighbourhood wonders what it portends, especially in the light of its recent adventurism in the high Himalayas.

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China’s Armour in Ladakh

13 Aug 2020

China’s Armour in Ladakh: The Sino-Indian stand-off in June 2020 took an ugly turn when 20 soldiers of the Indian Army lost their lives in brutal face off with PLA members.

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A decade of PAF ‘Shaheen’ air exercises

10 Aug 2020

A decade of PAF ‘Shaheen’ air exercises: The Air Forces of Pakistan (PAF or Pakistan Fiza’ya) and China (PLAAF or Zhongguo Renmin Jiefangjun Kongjun) have been carrying out air exercises coded Shaheen now for nearly a decade, beginning in March 2011, when for the very first time in history, the PLAAF had deployed fighters on Pakistan’s soil, in the Punjab.

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Mandeep Singh Bajwa on Facing the Chinese Dragon on the Ladakh Front

31 Jul 2020

Mandeep Singh Bajwa on Facing the Chinese Dragon on the Ladakh Front: Mandeep Singh Bajwa on Facing the Dragon: All that rapidly changed, with the PLA’s 6th Highland Mechanised Infantry Division then forward deployed in the Chinese half of Depsang Plains. It consists of the 7 Mechanised Infantry Regiment, 18 Mechanised Infantry Regiment and an armoured regiment.

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Indian and Chinese forces in Eastern Ladakh

31 Jul 2020

Indian and Chinese forces in Eastern Ladakh: Indian and Chinese forces in Eastern Ladakh: Headquartered at Chengdu, the WTC also includes a Joint Operational Command with headquarters at Lanzhou, with the Strategic Logistics Support Force having subordinate centres in each theatre including one at Xining.

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Lt Gen Kamal Davar on Countering the Chinese Dragon

30 Jul 2020

Lt Gen Kamal Davar on Countering the Chinese Dragon: From 5 May 2020 onwards, Chinese forces have transgressed in Eastern Ladakh at multiple points: along the Galwan Valley, Hot Springs area and the scenic Pangong Tso.

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Admiral Arun Prakash on How to play against China

30 Jul 2020

Admiral Arun Prakash on How to play against China: The sudden and tragic loss of 20 Indian army personnel in a treacherous ambush by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley has caused deep public anguish and anger, mollified, only partially, by the swift retribution visited on the assailants by our gallant jawans.

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