NEW DELHI: The fai A major combat training exercise began on Monday along the China-Pakistan fronts in the northern and western sectors, activating fighters with surface-to-air guided weapons, even as Army units also conduct high-altitude drills in the this. ladakh and the Arunachal-Sikkim sector.
The “Trishul” exercise by Western Air Command (WAC), the IAF frontline command responsible for a huge area stretching from Ladakh to Rajasthan, comes at a time when India is ready to host the summit of the G -20 this weekend, while the tense military confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh is also in its fourth year.
The 10 day goal trishul exercise is to check the overall combat readiness of the WAC. “All combat assets, from fighters like Rafales, Jaguars, MiG-29 and Sukhoi-30MKI and transport aircraft like C-130J and C-17 to surface-to-air guided weapons (SAGW) like S-400, MR-SAMS . and Akash have been deployed for the annual exercise,” a source said.
There will be a “slight operational pause” in the high-intensity air exercise during the G-20 summit in New Delhi on September 9-10. The IAF has already deployed a wide array of aircraft, radars and SAGWs to make the airspace over the Delhi National Capital Region as impregnable as possible for the conclave, as previously reported by TOI.
At the same time, units of the two China-specific Army Mountain Attack Corps (1 Corps and 17 Corps), each of which has around 70,000 soldiers and heavy weaponry for high-altitude warfare, are undergoing training in their “designated operating areas” in batches. “Units from 1 Corps and 17 Corps undertake deployments and conduct exercises along the entire 3,488-kilometre Line of Actual Control every summer,” a source said.
While 1 Corps (Mathura HQ) is now oriented towards the northern sector of LAC, rather than its previous role on the western front with Pakistanthe 17th (Panagarh) Corps is concentrating on an attack role in the eastern sector, including the Chumbi valley, opposite sikkim.
So far there are no signs of de-escalation of the confrontation in eastern Ladakh, and China has not even agreed to a troop withdrawal at the strategically located Depsang Bulge and Charding Ninglung Nallah (CNN) junction near Demchok. In the confrontation, both sides have deployed more than 50,000 soldiers each, along with heavy weaponry such as tanks, artillery guns and SAGWs, since May 2020.
The “Trishul” exercise by Western Air Command (WAC), the IAF frontline command responsible for a huge area stretching from Ladakh to Rajasthan, comes at a time when India is ready to host the summit of the G -20 this weekend, while the tense military confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh is also in its fourth year.
The 10 day goal trishul exercise is to check the overall combat readiness of the WAC. “All combat assets, from fighters like Rafales, Jaguars, MiG-29 and Sukhoi-30MKI and transport aircraft like C-130J and C-17 to surface-to-air guided weapons (SAGW) like S-400, MR-SAMS . and Akash have been deployed for the annual exercise,” a source said.
There will be a “slight operational pause” in the high-intensity air exercise during the G-20 summit in New Delhi on September 9-10. The IAF has already deployed a wide array of aircraft, radars and SAGWs to make the airspace over the Delhi National Capital Region as impregnable as possible for the conclave, as previously reported by TOI.
At the same time, units of the two China-specific Army Mountain Attack Corps (1 Corps and 17 Corps), each of which has around 70,000 soldiers and heavy weaponry for high-altitude warfare, are undergoing training in their “designated operating areas” in batches. “Units from 1 Corps and 17 Corps undertake deployments and conduct exercises along the entire 3,488-kilometre Line of Actual Control every summer,” a source said.
While 1 Corps (Mathura HQ) is now oriented towards the northern sector of LAC, rather than its previous role on the western front with Pakistanthe 17th (Panagarh) Corps is concentrating on an attack role in the eastern sector, including the Chumbi valley, opposite sikkim.
So far there are no signs of de-escalation of the confrontation in eastern Ladakh, and China has not even agreed to a troop withdrawal at the strategically located Depsang Bulge and Charding Ninglung Nallah (CNN) junction near Demchok. In the confrontation, both sides have deployed more than 50,000 soldiers each, along with heavy weaponry such as tanks, artillery guns and SAGWs, since May 2020.
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