India fills US in on strike force near china border

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.New York: India and the US share an increasingly warm relationship and it is visible in tighter defense ties. Days after India's cabinet committee on security approved the creation of a new military corps of 50,000 troops near its border with China, India shared its strategic perspective with a top US general. US Army Chief General Raymond T. Odierno met Defense Minister A.K Antony and his counterpart General Bikram Singh on Wednesday in South Block. He was privy to a 20-minute presentation on India's security analysis of the volatile Af-Pak region and China, said defense sources. India has been largely focused on its border with Pakistan, but plans for creating a new mountain strike corps costing $11 billion over seven years, shows India is now paying attention to the disputed Sino-Indian boundary. Reuters Analysts say India's decision to create a strike corps has been in the offing for over two years and reflects India's growing concern that China is becoming increasingly assertive in its territorial claims. China claims 90,000 square kilometers of land in Arunachal Pradesh. In April, there was a three-week stand-off on the disputed Sino-Indian border after Chinese soldiers brazenly pitched tents inside Ladakh. India has fought a brief border war with China in 1962 and three with Pakistan, but not against both countries at once. India, however, can't ignore the fact that China and Pakistan are regional allies. It mustn't let its guards down and should ideally be prepared for a war on two fronts. It would take five to seven years for a new mountain corps to be formed fully, as large numbers of soldiers would need to be recruited and trained for combat at high altitudes, say military planners. US Army Chief Odierno also traveled to Udhampur on Thursday where he received another military assessment on regional security from Lt General Sanjiv Chachra who heads India's northern command. The US sees India as an important part of the Obama administration's pivot to Asia. US Vice President Joe Biden's four-day visit to Delhi and Mumbai, which followed Secretary of State John Kerry's trip by just a few weeks, was aimed squarely at strengthening economic and defense ties. Working strategically China has steadily developed infrastructure along the disputed Sino-Indian border. It has also boosted military spending and expanded its navy to rival the US and to fight territorial disputes with a number of East Asian countries including Vietnam and the Philippines in the South China Sea. Both India and the US share the common goal of not wanting an Asia that is dominated by China. Biden travelled from New Delhi to Singapore where both he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe used visits to Singapore on Friday to press for action to ease rising tensions in disputed Asian waters where China is increasingly asserting territorial claims. China has in recent months stepped up military patrols in the South China Sea, prompting the US to carry out joint naval maneuvers with allies in the resource-rich waters. India's increasing role in the Asia-Pacific has been supported by the US which is the region's premier naval power. Since 2001, the US and India have conducted over 40 joint military exercises. In 2007, Singapore, Japan and Australia joined the US and India in "Malabar 2007," which was one of the largest multilateral naval exercises ever held in the Bay of Bengal, prompting Beijing to issue demarches to all five participating countries. According to defence experts, from China's point of view, the coming together of these five navies marked the beginning of a loose anti-China naval barrier in the Indian Ocean region. China has also advanced its influence in the region, with allies like North Korea, Pakistan, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. It has established itself as a growing, and sometimes bullying, power in the Pacific, particularly in East Asia. Most countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have festering territorial disputes with China. China has warned India away from exploration projects in the South China Sea. Much to China's annoyance, India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp., plans to drill for oil in the international waters and India has signed joint agreements with Vietnam on energy projects in the South China Sea. According to the government's assessment, China's unease stems from India having taken up exploration activity in an area close to Hainan, where a Chinese nuclear submarine base is located. India is not going to be a traditional ally of the US, but they share the objective to structure a stable balance of power in Asia. Four thousand WikiLeaks cables from the US embassy in New Delhi reveal an increasingly warm relationship. Although, there are issues on which the two countries differ, such as Iran and several areas of tension – including US policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan – but, on the whole, the relationship is good.

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We are seeing large scale items being cleared for India. Earlier it would not have been the case.

We have seen a definitive improvement in relations and better understanding starting out from the Strobe Talbot-Jaswant Singh meetings. The momentum has continued despite the change in Government in both the countries. There are huge converging interests for both the countries and the irritants are minor. We need to build up on this.
 

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Both US and China are quite pleased to see that India boosting its military spending!
 

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Simple theory " The enemy of my enemy is my friend " ... India's Enemy is China and China's Enemy is US ... so US wants develop relationship with India. But the same US is helping pakistan financially and technology wise and the PAK and China are allies ... this will help china to grab the US technology info form pakistan. This proves that US indirectly helping china to upgrade their defence technology. Small portion of the tech info is enough for china to create weapons, it is a country known for copying the technology and creating clones.
 

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Pictures have appeared on a Chinese defense blog of what appears to be a U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship and questions are being asked about how it got there or even if it is an Apache at all. Theories range from it being a movie prop mock-up to a clone copy developed from either espionage or the acquisition of crash remnants.

The helicopter in the pictures certainly bears a striking resemblance to the feared tank killer that has been one of the military's most potent weapons in the last two decades. In the photo sequence, the undercarriage appears to be missing, as are the main rotor blades, but its silhouette is unmistakable.

The engine nacelles and cockpit cowling are identical and if it is in fact a copy, it is a very sophisticated one with even the Apache's signature "wart" on its nose being clearly visible. The wart is the highly sophisticated sensor and targeting array that contributes greatly to the overall lethality of the Apache, containing thermal imaging, a laser target designator and, depending on the variant, either a monochrome-daylight camera or a full-color camera.

Over the past decade, China has demonstrated its willingness to go to extraordinary and dubious lengths to advance its military capabilities. There have been several high-profile electronic hacking scandals in recent years, penetrating some of the Pentagon's most top-secret programs.

In April 2011, China revealed to the public it's first 'stealth' aircraft, the J20 Chengdu, which military officials admitted was likely developed using technology acquired from the downing of an F117A1 Nighthawk by Serbian anti-aircraft forces in 1999.

If this were to be the case with the Apache, the most likely candidate would be from the downing of an Apache in 2003 where an AH-64 Vampire 12 was shot down intact during an assault against Saddam Hussain's forces near Karbala, Iraq. In that incident, the crew – David S. Williams and Ronald D. Young Jr — were captured by Iraqi forces but later rescued. At the time, the Pentagon said that the crash site had been targeted by an airstrike the following day to prevent the technology from falling into enemy hands.
source: Has China found a way to 'clone' US military hardware? | The Daily Caller
 

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LOL...google with keyword : "防空博览园" --------A China's Local Air Defence museum, opened in Sep 2011...

location:
镇海招宝山中国防空博览园AAAA级景区
景点地址:浙江省宁波市镇海区招宝山路10号

only AH64? at least E-2D as well.........LOL.... just 1:1 mock-ups



bird's eye view via Google Eearth.....LOL

 
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