India, Israel to deepen military cooperation amid border row
Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Friday spoke with his Israeli counterpart Lieutenant General Benjamin Gantz over telephone with strengthening bilateral defence ties being the focus of the conversation, at a time India is making emergency military purchases from several countries including Israel to bolster the military’s capabilities amid border tensions with China in eastern Ladakh. “Both ministers expressed satisfaction at the progress of strategic cooperation between the two countries and discussed possibilities of further strengthen…
India moves to buy 6 more Poseidons from US for $1.8bn
India has formally kicked off the acquisition process for six more long-range Poseidon-8I aircraft from the US, while a plan is also underway for fast-track procurement of six Predator-B armed drones amidst the ongoing military confrontation with China. India is extensively using the naval P-8I patrol planes, which are packed with radars and electro-optic sensors as well as armed with Harpoon Block-II missiles and MK-54 lightweight torpedoes, for surveillance missions over the Indian Ocean as well as eastern Ladakh. The Navy had inducte…
Dropping lightweight tanks in Ladakh not enough. India’s forces need to be made more lethal
First time since 1962 that tanks and mechanised elements urgently airlifted to Ladakh” reads a headline in The Tribune of 22 June 2020. “India’s (sic) shopping for lightweight mountain-friendly tanks post China tussles”, proclaims another eye-catching header in The Economic Times of 15 July 2020. Evidently, there’s nothing like a crisis on our borders to bring into sharp focus the gaze of Indian defence planners on essentials such as armour, along with other criticalities in war waging hardware. Especially when it happens to be precip…
Russian bid to host SCO, Brics meets shadowed by China’s Ladakh move
Russia’s efforts to host the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and Brics summits with physical presence of the leaders is being overshadowed by China’s move to amass troops in eastern Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control. While the disengagement process has been initiated, PLA troops continue to be amassed, casting a shadow over the two non-Western plurilaterals of which Russia holds the current presidency, ET has reliably gathered. Both China and India are members of these organisations and India has strongly backed the goals …
DefenseNews: China now pays the price for Galwan Valley aggression
The Chinese government is putting pressure on the families of PLA soldiers, who died in the clash with Indian soldiers in the Galwan Valley, not to conduct burials and in-person funeral ceremonies. The move is part of an attempt to cover up an episode that Beijing views as a blunder, according to a report in the American online news portal US News and World Report. The news portal, which claims that the news is based on a US intelligence assessment, states that the Chinese ministry of civil affairs has told families of the soldiers that…
Defense News: 20 Navy MiG-29s moved to Ladakh
New Delhi: The Navy’s MiG-29K maritime fighter jets are being deployed at airbases in the northern sector to beef up the Air Force’s strength following the heightened tensions with China at the Line of Actual Control. The MiG-29Ks can be used for combat air patrols in the Ladakh sector. The Indian Navy has around 40 MiG-29K fighters, only half of which are deployed on aircraft-carrier INS Vikramaditya. The MiG-29K jets were procured by the Navy along with the aircraft-carrier over a decade ago. Navy’s MiG-29K maritime fighter jets are b…
Now, a made-in-India drone to monitor Chinese aggression along the LAC
New Delhi: On the backdrop of the recent standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Indian Army has been provided special made-in-India drone by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), named Bharat, has been developed by Chandigarh-based laboratory of the DRDO. Touted by the developers to be one of the 'world's most agile and lightest surveillance drones', the UAV has been developed fully indigenously by the DRDO. According to DRDO sources cited by news agency ANI…
Chinese troops still present at Finger 5 area of Pangong Tso in Ladakh, next few days crucial: Sources
A week after the fourth round of military talks between India and China, sources on Tuesday said that Chinese forces are still present at Finger 5 area of the Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh. The sources added that some thinning has taken place but it's very little. It also added that the next few days will be crucial. On July 14, during the course of the intense and complex negotiations between senior commanders of the two armies that lasted nearly 15 hours, the Indian delegation apprised the Chinese People's Liberation Army about …
India’s two fronts with China and Pakistan !!
Yet, astonishing as it sounds, while flaunting their ambitious plans for a two-front war, the current army chief and his predecessor give themselves away when they declare that the focus of their war preparations is basically Pakistan and that on the Chinese front the Indian army will adopt a policy of deterrence. In his first press conference after taking over as army chief last December, Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane spoke of “collusivity” between Pakistan and China and said this could be “both physical on land borders and in other spheres …
Russia nudges China to speed up disengagement along the LAC for Eurasian stability
NEW DELHI: Russia has quietly nudged China to expedite the ongoing disengagement process along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. The current situation along the LAC and stability in the region is understood to have figured when Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov held telephonic conversation with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi last week, ET has reliably gathered. It has been further learnt that Lavrov and Wang discussed how to settle “global issues exclusively through dialogue”. “On July 17, foreign minister Sergey Lavrov …
Indians need to be more firm in saying ‘No’ to Chinese products
India: While diplomacy, whether it is cynical or coercive, is always preferable to a military response to China’s insatiable greed for land, India must not waver in its resolve to stand up to the bully on the block There is an indisputable groundswell of anger among Indians against China. Simmering rage over the PLA’s attempt to grab land – through by now familiar stealth and deceit – along the Line of Actual Control in east Ladakh, turned incandescent after the deadly clash on the night of June 15-16 that resulted in the death of 20 Indi…
China bullying its neighbours in Himalayas, instigating deadly confrontation with India: Mike Pompeo
Washington DC: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo once again slammed China for its expansionist agenda and urged "the entire world" to stand up to Beijing. Launching a scathing attack on the Chinese leadership over the “cover-up” of the COVID-19 crisis, the top US diplomat said the Chinese Communist Party's "exploitation of this disaster to further its own interest has been disgraceful". In a reference to India-China border standoff, Pompeo accused Beijing of bullying its neighbours and accused it of instigating …
China’s LAC stance expansive, goes beyond its1960 claim line
New Delhi: China’s actions along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh seek to alter whatever is the approximate alignment at the undemarcated border, aiming to create fresh tussles in addition to the 10 known points of dispute or differing perception. The four fresh disagreements—Galwan, patrol points (PP) 15 and 17A and Finger-4 at Pangong Tso—have separate implications. While Galwan is a fresh claim, the other three fall in gray areas, implying these are geographically located between the multiple self-claimed boundaries of China and th…
Why Indian Army is cautious of China during Ladakh disengagement
New Delhi: The Army is being cautious about the disengagement with China in Ladakh as it feels Beijing could drag the whole process through the winter and use the distraction to make mischief elsewhere, possibly in the Northeast, ThePrint has learnt. In 1962, China had used deception to mount a full-frontal attack on India. However, some feel China can no longer catch India off-guard since Army has beefed up presence along LAC. This probable scenario is high on the mind of military and security planners in New Delhi as well as those of …
India must prepare as Pakistan seeking Chinese support for its adventurism as much as it is the other way around.
India has long considered the potential of a two-front war with Pakistan and China, it was only in 2009 that a keynote address at a seminar in Delhi, by the then Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, forced a serious re-evaluation. The debate regarding India’s capability to fight a war in which there is full collusion between China and Pakistan has generally remained inconclusive. Most detractors of the belief regarding China’s military-operational support to Pakistan, in the event of latter’s the adventurism against India, have leaned on the…
Indian Army's Rudra Armed Helos Break Cover in Ladakh
The Indian Army Rudra, the in-service advanced armed version of the HAL Dhruv, briefly broke cover today in Ladakh, confirming the indigenous aircraft’s operational deployment amidst border tensions to the high altitude theatre it was always designed for. An Army Aviation Corps Rudra was fleetingly seen in footage from a combat demonstration today in Stakna for visiting Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh. The Indian Army currently operates over 50 HAL-built Rudras, with more in the pipeline for a total fleet of 78 airframes. The Ind…
Rajnath Singh: ‘Talks on to solve border dispute, can’t guarantee anything’
The tension between India and China has been going on for months, but flared up after 20 army soldiers were killed in a violent face-off between Indian and Chinese troops on June 15. Defence minister Rajnath Singh, who arrived in Ladakh on Friday morning, said that talks are underway to resolve the border dispute with China in Ladakh, but stopped short of giving any guarantees on the resolution. However, Singh underlined that not an inch of our land can be taken by any power in the world. India and China have held many talks over the p…
Delhi: India Army on High Alert as China refuses to step back in Ladakh
Tensions between India and China may rise in the coming days as the latter has reportedly refused to step back from the Finger 4 area in Pangong Tso. In wake of the situation, the Indian Army is on high alert and has increased the deployment of tanks along the East Ladakh borders to repel any threat from the Chinese army. Around 60,000 soldiers have been deployed in East Ladakh along with Bhishm tanks, Apache attack helicopters, Sukhoi fighter jets, Chinook and Rudra helicopters near the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The development com…
The day India won back Tiger Hill
Much water has flown down the Indus since 1999, however, the Kargil victory remains etched in the psyche of our nation. One story of valour that stood out among the many inspiring tales of bravery displayed by the Indian Army, was the recapture of Tiger Hill. With sharp conical features, Tiger Hill stands among the mountain tops a few kilometres north of Drass. Its recapture was critical as the feature dominates the National Highway A1 (NHA1 and was used by the Pakistani troops to shell Indian convoys moving towards Kargil and Leh with s…
China's border row with India has misfired, India Japan closer
China's three-week border stand-off during April in Ladakh, in Indian-administered Kashmir, had misfired and Beijing's move galvanised Indian leaders into finally sealing an historic security deal with Japan. China's three-week border stand-off during April in Ladakh, in Indian-administered Kashmir, had misfired and Beijing's move galvanised Indian leaders into finally sealing an historic security deal with Japan. The dispute strained ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours, but both sides pulled troops back ahead…
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