Akash Missiles Deployment:

Tezpur Fight Against Sukhoi-30MKI

The Akash setup in the northeast is in tune with the general strategy to progressively achieve “meaningful and credible deterrence” against China across the 4,057-km Line of Actual Control (LAC).

 

Akash Missiles Deployment:

The drive has also re-activated advanced landing grounds (ALGs) in Nyoma and Daulat Beg Oldie in southern Ladakh in addition to Vijayanagar situated in the tri-junction of India, China and Myanmar in the Changlang district of Arunachal. Similar work is underway in other businesses ALGs like Pasighat, Mechuka, Walong, Tuting and Ziro.
IAF, on its own part, has set Sukhoi squadrons in Tezpur and Chabua in the southern sector along with Bareilly in the middle sector of the LAC. The two Tezpur and Chabua are getting their next Sukhoi squadrons, with IAF having inducted over 200 of these fighters contracted by Russia for over $12 billion. Additionally, the extensive road and rail links made in TAR guarantee Chinese soldiers like numerical superiority against Indian forces in a 3:1 ratio.

The measures being taken today to “dissuade” China range from the growth of this over 5,000-km Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile to raising of the newest Army XVII Mountain Strike Corps with over 90,000 soldiers at a price of Rs 64,678 crore. There is also the boundary military infrastructure development program for another Rs 26,155 crore, as mentioned by TOI earlier. NEW DELHI: After basing its strongest Sukhoi-30MKI fighters in Tezpur and Chabua, India has now begun deploying six Akash surface-to-air missile (SAM) squadrons in the northeast to discourage Chinese jets, helicopters, and drones against any misadventure in the region.Defence ministry resources on Thursday said IAF has begun getting deliveries of their six Akash missile squadrons, which could “neutralize” multiple goals at 25-km interception range in all-weather conditions, allowed for the eastern theatre.”

IAF has set the first two Akash squadrons in the Mirage-2000 foundation in Gwalior and Sukhoi foundation in Pune. The subsequent six squadrons, as accepted by the Cabinet Committee on Security, would be to protect against any danger from the northern boundaries,” said a source.This long-delayed but finally successful induction of these Akash systems, manufactured by DRDO and fabricated by Defence PSU Bharat Dynamics, has also resulted in the scrapping of their protracted discussions to create the ‘Maitri’ short-range SAMs with France at a price of approximately Rs 30,000 crore.

While the Indian Navy is now better placed to undertake Chinese warships in the Indian Ocean, the primitive military asymmetry with the People’s Liberation Army across the LAC, both in firepower in addition to infrastructure, has long worried the Indian security establishment.