After a deep internal review of the recent conflict with Pakistan, the Indian Army is planning to deploy a number of its air defence units cl✃ose to the border to thwart aerial threats emanating from Pakistan.
&qu♍ot;Some of the fighting formations inc🉐luding air defence and other defensive formations are now planned to be moved closer to the borders," top Army sources told ANI.
"With these air defence units deployed closer to the border, we would be able to tackle any possib✱le aerial strike from enemy side and thwart it close to the border itself," they said.
The sources said the location of the air 🌞defence units deployed in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Gujarat and Rajasthan were reviewed by the force and it was fe༺lt that a number of them can be moved to forward locations to thwart enemy aerial strikes close to the borders itself.
The air defence assets of the Indian Army include the indigenous Akash air defenc🏅e missile systems along with the Russian Kvadrat and other old legacy systems. The force is also set to receive the latest MR-SAM air defence system which has been produced by the DRD-Israel joint venture.
After India hit the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camp in Balakot town of Khyber Pakhtunwa prov൩i൩nce of Pakistan, the neighbouring country launched a big aerial attack in Jammu sector along the Line of Control.
Even though the attack was thwarted by the Air Force air defence fighters including the MiG-21s and the Su-30MKIs and one Pakistani F-16 was also shot down, it was felt that presence of air defence units in t﷽he area could have caused more d🍸amage to the Pakistanis.
Due to the aggress൩ive response of the Air Force, the Pakistanis could come only a couple of kilometres inside the Indi𓃲an territory.
The Pakistani air attack on Feཧbruary 27 was in response to the Balakot hits by the I🧸ndian Air Force a day earlier.
(ANI)
