It was the IA’s VCOAS that had visited the US last month for seeking leased hardware, including the critical winter habitation prefabricated structures. At the same time, lease of eight such UAS platforms was sought for ensuring 24/7 ISR of the LAC alongside Ladakh, Sikkim & Arunachal Pradesh. Hence, instead of the IN, it is the IA that has leased such UAS platforms, since the non-existence of such capabilities had resulted in the PLAGF advancing from their breakout areas to their final destinations in the critical first 2 weeks of May by taking advantage of non-existent persistent ISR capabilities of the IA, IAF & ITBP. Anyone specialising in persistent ISR will know that even the availability of four or six overhead recce satellites cannot ensure persistent ISR of the kind provided by a fleet turboprop-powered or turbofan-powered MALE-UAVs. And that’s precisely why even China chose not to use its limited-endurance CH-4 UAS platforms, & instead made use of up to 6 turbofan-powered EA-03 Soar Dragon HAL-UAS (flying from Shigatse) to obtain persistent ISR coverage of the LAC alongside Ladakh between March & May 2020. And this practice continues till this day. That’s why the IAF has since 2016 been clamouring for inducting the General Atomics-built, turbofan-powered Avenger UAS equipped with SAR sensors, but such requests were turned down after the DRDO managed to con the country’s decision-makers & obtained funds for developing an ISR platform by making use of a regional jetliner airframe!!!
The blood of the 20 KIA in june is on DRDO's hands
ये DRDO वाले भड़वे सौ बाप की एकलौती औलाद होते हैं