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New Delhi: IAF is finally going in for specialized, rugged mountain radars which can be deployed in high-altitude areas bordering China to ensure air intrusions by spy drones, helicopters and aircraft are detected in ''realtime''.
This comes in the backdrop of continuing intrusions — the military likes to dub them ''transgressions'' — by the People's Liberation Army all along the unresolved 4,056-km Line of Actual Control, from Pangong Tso lake in eastern Ladakh to the ''finger area'' in Sikkim.
China, in fact, continues to needle India even in the middle sector of Uttarakhand-Himachal. Just last week, for instance, a PLA platoon on horses crossed over in the Barahoti region with sheer impunity. While most of these ''transgressions'' occur on land, violations of Indian airspace are not unknown. ''These lightweight mountain radars will be installed in difficult terrains like Ladakh since conventional radars cannot be deployed there. They should be able to pick up even small aircraft from a distance of 300 to 400 km away,'' said an officer.
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Defa...eLabel=11&EntityId=Ar01104&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T
This comes in the backdrop of continuing intrusions — the military likes to dub them ''transgressions'' — by the People's Liberation Army all along the unresolved 4,056-km Line of Actual Control, from Pangong Tso lake in eastern Ladakh to the ''finger area'' in Sikkim.
China, in fact, continues to needle India even in the middle sector of Uttarakhand-Himachal. Just last week, for instance, a PLA platoon on horses crossed over in the Barahoti region with sheer impunity. While most of these ''transgressions'' occur on land, violations of Indian airspace are not unknown. ''These lightweight mountain radars will be installed in difficult terrains like Ladakh since conventional radars cannot be deployed there. They should be able to pick up even small aircraft from a distance of 300 to 400 km away,'' said an officer.
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Defa...eLabel=11&EntityId=Ar01104&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T