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Indian Army forward posts in Arunachal Pradesh along LAC to have helipad facility

Source : Press Trust of India (PTI)

Indian Army forward posts in Arunachal Pradesh along LAC to have helipad facility
An Indian Air Force’s Chinook helicopter carrying supplies prepares to take off from a forward airbase in Leh, in the Ladakh region. (Reuters)



TEZU: Almost all forward posts guarding the frontier with China in Arunachal Pradesh will have at least one large helipad each for swift mobilisation of troops and military equipment using multi-role Chinook helicopters as part of a mega push for enhancing the army’s combat readiness in the region, senior military officials said on Friday.

Each of the forward posts and army units are also being linked with optical fibre network and all of them will have separate satellite terminals for bolstering overall surveillance of Chinese activities across the line of actual control (LAC).

In the last two years, the army units have been equipped with new lethal weapons, remotely piloted aircraft systems, all terrain vehicles and communication and surveillance gadgets, they said.

The army has already deployed large number of indigenously-built remotely piloted aircraft, Switch, in the forward posts to monitor Chinese activities across the LAC.

“We are now giving a big push to the infrastructure development in the forward areas in the eastern sector,” Brig TM Sinha, commander of a mountain brigade in eastern Arunachal, told a group of visiting journalists.

As part of the capability development initiative, the army has powered its units in Arunachal with a sizeable number of US-manufactured all terrain vehicles, 7.62 MM Negev light machine guns from Israel and various other lethal weapons, the officials said.

They said the helipads are being built at the forward posts to facilitate landing and take off the Chinook 47 (F) helicopters which were procured from the US under a deal sealed in 2015.

The officials said the construction of helipads in forward locations is going on in full swing and the aim is to have such facilities at a distance of every 8 to 10 kms.

The Chinook is a multi-role, vertical-lift platform, which is used for transporting troops, artillery, equipment and fuel, and the choppers are being extensively used to bolster India’s military preparedness in the eastern sector.

“The construction of the helipads will facilitate operation of Chinooks in forward areas and will ensure quick movement of equipment and troops,” said Brig Sinha.

The government has been giving a major push to infrastructure development along the nearly 3,500 km long LAC following the eastern Ladakh face-off that began in 2020.

The army has deployed a significant number of easily transportable M-777 ultra light howitzers in mountainous regions along the LAC in Arunachal.

The M-777 can be transported quickly in Chinook helicopters and the army now has the flexibility of quickly moving them from one place to another, based on operational requirements. (PTI)

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