Massive Pak Army build-up along LoC, IB

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Ground report from LoC: Pakistan desperate to push terrorists, BSF jawans maintain strict vigil

New Delhi/Jammu: Post-surgical strikes in September by the Indian Army against terrorist launch pads, there's a "big build-up" of troops across the borders in Pakistan. And it's not just at the International Border (IB) but also along the Line of Control (LoC).





Massive Pak Army build-up along LoC, IB 

New Delhi/Jammu: Post-surgical strikes in September by the Indian Army against terrorist launch pads, there's a "big build-up" of troops across the borders in Pakistan. And it's not just at the International Border (IB) but also along the Line of Control (LoC).


An assessment of Pakistan's military preparedness by the Defense establishment here suggests that the Pakistan Army has withdrawn 30,000 regular troops from trouble-torn Waziristan and deployed them at the LoC. These are besides the 25 per cent of its 'reserve' forces that have already been deployed along the IB and the LoC.


Also, Pakistan has kept the 15,000 troops, raised especially to guard the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), in readiness even as the Pakistan Air Force has been put on high alert. It has even replaced the Pakistan Rangers at the IB with its regular Army troops. The Rangers are Pakistan's equivalent of India's paramilitary force Border Security Force and guards the IB.

The ramping up started days after the surgical strikes on September 29 in which seven terrorist launch pads were destroyed and at least 35-40 terrorists killed. Keen to take revenge, the Pakistan Army has since then gone on an overdrive stepping up ceasefire violations along the IB and LoC and redeploying its troops.


The Rawalpindi-based 10 Corps, which controls militancy in Kashmir, withdrew nearly 30,000 troops from restive Waziristan in the last few weeks, retrained them for a possible offensive against India and deployed them along the IB and LoC. These troops were engaged in anti-militancy operations in Waziristan for the last few years.


Similarly, the specially raised unit of nearly 15,000 troops for guarding the Economic Corridor besides ensuring safety of Chinese workforce engaged in building it, were also reoriented for war fighting, sources said here on Saturday.




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Incidentally, parts of the CPEC became operational sometime back with more than 100 commercial trucks crisscrossing it through Pakistan- occupied-Kashmir (PoK).


The length of the corridor is more than 2,440 km and will ultimately link Gwadar port in southwestern Pakistan with Xingjiang province in northwest China. The project was conceived by President Xi Jingping as part of China's 'One Belt One Road' policy.


India has raised objection to this project as it poses a threat to the country's strategic interests and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had raised it during his meeting with the Chinese President on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hangzhou recently. Modi reportedly said terrorism was exported into India from the POK which is part of the Economic Corridor.

Elaborating upon the threat posed by the Economic Corridor in military terms, officials said in case of any exigency Pakistan will have unhindered logistical supply line right up to China for ferrying ammunition and weapons.


Apart from withdrawing troops from Waziristan and keeping the 15,000 troops guarding the Corridor in readiness, the Pakistan Army has also deployed 25 per cent of its 'reserves' in forward positions on the LOC and in some parts of the IB. This indicates that Pakistan is now adopting an aggressive posture by moving ahead on the LoC, officials said.


Moreover, the Pakistan Air Force is in full state of readiness and its commanders are reviewing serviceability and capabilities of its fighter jet fleet. Apart from this factor, Pakistan teams are reportedly in China for ensuring steady supply of ammunition for its air fleet, sources said.

   

Reports from Jammu said while on the surface a deceptive calm is prevailing along the IB and LoC for the last three days but behind the scenes, Pakistani troops are building up their defences especially after suffering extensive damages in the strong Indian retaliation.


Constant fear is lurking in the minds of border residents as they are still shying away from returning to their homes and hearths in the wake of heightened tensions. The BSF authorities are not prepared to take any chances and preventing local farmers from visiting their fields ahead of border fencing.
According to highly placed sources, "BSF jawans manning observation posts along the IB have been frequently spotting heavy movement of Pakistan Army regulars near damaged posts of Pakistan Rangers in the Sialkot sector."


Presence of Pakistan Army regulars inside some of the forward posts targeting civilian areas inside the Indian territory has already been confirmed by the senior BSF officers camping across Jammu frontier.


BSF officers are also closely monitoring footage of highly sophisticated long range cameras and other surveillance devices fitted atop observation towers to read the movement of Pakistan Rangers on ground zero.

The invisible 'third eye' of the BSF is also keeping a tight vigil on the movement of the infiltrators close to the barbed wire fencing during the night. Hand-held thermal imagers (HHTI) and night vision devices (NVD) have been used by the BSF to track down the movement of heavily Army infiltrators.

BSF has so far claimed to have destroyed over two dozen border posts of Pakistan Rangers in strong retaliation. Similarly, Pakistan Army too has tasted the brunt of massive fire power of the Indian Army in Keran sector after a border action team (BAT) of Pakistan Army mutilated dead body of an Indian soldier killed in encounter near the LoC in Macchal sector.


Indian Army had even employed artillery guns to decimate Pakistan posts in that sector.
Published by HT Syndication with permission from Pioneer.






 

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Understanding The Impact Of The Rafale Fighter Jet And S-400 Missile System Deals On The IAF

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                            Rammohan Kalluri

 - November 01,  2016


                           

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The Rafale fighter jet and S-400 missile system deals are significant for the Indian Air Force, which is struggling with insufficient squadron numbers.

 

The multi-pronged force multiplier impact provided by the Rafale and S-400 missile systems is a much-needed shot in the arm for the IAF.

On 23 September, the Rafale fighter jet deal was signed by French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. Over half a month later, on 15 October, India and Russia signed an inter-governmental agreement for the supply of the S-400 missile system. The two deals are significant for the Indian Air Force (IAF), which is struggling with insufficient squadron numbers. While the IAF has a sanctioned strength of 45 fighter squadrons, it is currently operating at a low 35 squadrons and facing an alarming shortage in the near future when many MiG-21 and MiG-27 squadrons will be retired.

The Long-Winded Acquisition of Rafale Aircraft

When Dassault Aviation was declared the L1 winner of the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) contract for acquisition of 126 fighter planes on 31 January 2012, the decade-long quest of the IAF for a multi-role combat aircraft finally seemed to be hitting the right stride. However, progress on negotiations over the next two years were beset with several problems. The overall cost of acquisition inflated substantially from $12 billion to a purported $25 billion as the details of maintenance, transfer of technology (ToT) and spares support were negotiated as per Indian specifications. There were other impediments, as Dassault Aviation and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) could not reach an agreement on the terms of guarantee for HAL-produced airframes. Even as the negotiations proceeded at a slow pace with ever-increasing complications, the sword of corruption charges hung over the whole deal. The charges were spearheaded by Subramanian Swamy on the basis of a “Carla Bruni-Sonia Gandhi bribery axis”.

 

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French Rafale fighter jets (FRANCK PENNANT/AFP/Getty Images)

The basis of all the confusion with respect to negotiations, as well as the scope for corruption charges, stems from the mishandling by then-Defence Minister A K Antony. At least three senior officials in the Finance Ministry have made a file noting that the formula used for L1 bid estimation by Dassault Aviation was different from that used by the other shortlisted vendor EADS, resulting in an unfair advantage to the eventual winner, Dassault Aviation. The right course of action would have been to evaluate bids by both competitors on exactly the same terms.

However, either due to the IAF’s preference for the Rafale or due to extraneous factors, Antony sanctioned further cost negotiations with a non-compliant L1 bid.

 

Complicating matters more, to minimise risk to his image, he instructed the negotiation committee to report to him if the computation for the L1 bid had to be handled differently. This meant that if the negotiation committee indeed found Dassault Aviation’s L1 bid non-compliant, the two years of time spent on the negotiation was wasted. It was a ludicrous decision that made no sense at all. Such gross mishandling led to not only complicated contract negotiations with major impediments but also left the door open for the deal to be a target for corruption charges.

 

In this backdrop of inflating cost, non-agreement on guarantee terms and cost for HAL-produced airframes and impending corruption charges, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took decisive action in scrapping the MMRCA deal and announcing an inter-governmental agreement with the French government for direct delivery of 36 Rafale fighter jets on 10 April 2015.

Inter-governmental agreement for the S-400 missile system

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S-400 Triumf air defence system (Vitaly V Kuzmin/Wikimedia Commons)

The inter-governmental agreement signed for the S-400 missile system on the sidelines of the BRICS summit at Goa made no detailed references to cost or induction timelines. However, it has been reported that the contractual negotiations are likely to be completed in next six to nine months with a targeted signing of the deal by April 2017. The contract is likely to result in the delivery of at least five units of the S-400 missile system.

Besides Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM), the S-400 system is also capable of shooting down subsonic cruise missiles, which Pakistan is likely to use for the delivery of tactical nukes. The S-400 system would be able to target an F16/JF-17-sized fighter at a range exceeding 300km, making it a highly potent addition to the IAF.

Analysis of IAF’s Squadron Strength

The IAF has a sanctioned strength of 45 fighter squadrons. However, the IAF is currently operating only 35 squadrons, which includes 11 squadrons of legacy aircraft like MiG-21 M/Bis/Bison and MiG-27. These 11 squadrons are due for retirement between 2018 and 2022. In the same period, the IAF is projected to add only six to seven squadrons, resulting in a major shortage in squadron strength.

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Timelines for retirement and induction of various fighter aircraft into IAF; The numbers on the bars represent the squadron numbers of the respective fighters at the corresponding time.

Over the next few years, the IAF will add two more squadrons of Su-30MKI (2016-2019) from the current production line while two squadrons of Rafale will be delivered between 2019 and 2022. The IAF has also contracted 40 Tejas Mk1 & 80 Tejas Mk1A aircraft, of which three squadrons will be delivered by 2022.

In the first week of October this year, the IAF has sent out a request for information for a single-engine fighter to be manufactured in India under full ToT. The likely contenders are the F-16 Block 70 (purported Indian configuration) and the Gripen E. It is imperative that the Modi government moves quickly on this front so that the deliveries of the single-engine fighter could start by 2022-2024.

 

Currently, planned production of 14 squadrons of Su-30MKI (272 aircraft), two squadrons of Rafale, 120 Tejas Mk1/1A and a projected six squadrons (120 aircraft) of a single-engine fighter under ToT will constitute “nominal induction plan” for the IAF, representing the bare minimum modernisation path.
 

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The IAF has publicly said that it would like to induct more Rafale fighter jets. Simultaneously, the Russian side is informally pushing the Indian government to extend the Su-30MKI production line by another 40 aircraft. Considering the falling squadron strength, it would be prudent to order two more squadrons of either Rafale or Su-30MKI. It should also be a straightforward decision to extend the production lines of Tejas Mk1A and a single-engine fighter under ToT to add two more squadrons between them. This represents an “optimistic induction plan” for the IAF, which is fairly straightforward and extremely feasible without any complications. This is easily doable with some coordination between the IAF and the Defence Ministry.

 

Clearly, even in the most optimistic scenario, the IAF will not realise its sanctioned squadron strength (45 squadrons) in the next 20 years. If the induction of fighter jets follows the nominal induction path, except for four years between 2016 and 2020, the IAF will operate below existing squadron levels for the major part of the next 17 years. Therefore, it is imperative that the IAF & Defence Ministry coordinate well to chase the “optimistic induction path”. Only such proactive planning will ensure a suitable squadron strength for the IAF in the longer term. Nevertheless, the bad news is that the IAF will have to operate at a low 32-33 squadrons during 2019-2024.

Rafale & S-400 as Force Multipliers

In this backdrop, the signing of the Rafale deal and the inter-governmental agreement on the S-400 missile system are crucial developments, as both systems can act as huge force multipliers in their own way for the IAF.

 

The Rafale jet is an excellent 4.5 generation fighter jet that comes equipped with potent armaments in the form of Storm Shadow stand-off ALCM and Meteor long-range BVRAAM. However, it is the low observable airframe equipped with an AESA radar and a SPECTRA jammer that makes it a potent force multiplier when the IAF’s inventory of aircraft is equipped with an ODL. Rafale would be able to leverage its low observable and long-range detection capabilities to detect enemy aircraft earlier, and share tactical combat information with other aircraft (such as Tejas, Mirage 2000 and MiG-29) equipped with an ODL. With its ability to act as a mini-AWACS or fighter director in a network-centric environment, the Rafale aircraft can be a significant force multiplier for the IAF.

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Projected coverage bubble with a deployment of five units of S-400 (Image Credit: @Aryanwarlord)

 

The Saab 2000 Erieye AEW&C aircraft act as a buffer or balancer for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) against the air superiority enjoyed by the IAF. With a targeting range exceeding 400km for the AEW&C operated by the PAF, the S-400 system makes it near-impossible for the PAF to operate their AWACS system while the IAF would be able to freely deploy its AWACS due to PAF lacking equivalent systems that can endanger the AWACS flying inside Indian territory. Any PAF fighter deployment will also have to contend with the threat of being targeted by the S-400 missile system. By virtually plugging the western border and severely limiting the deployment of PAF AWACS, the S-400 acts as a huge force multiplier.
 

Conclusion

The multi-pronged force multiplier impact provided by the Rafale and S-400 missile systems is a much-needed shot in the arm for the IAF. Even with lower squadron numbers, the IAF would be able to establish air superiority over the western border with the upgraded Mirage 2000 and MiG-29 fighters supported by a small compliment of Rafales and/or Su-30MKI. This essentially allows the IAF to deploy a major portion of its best fighter assets (Rafale & Su-30MKI) to defend the northern border in the eventuality of a two-front conflict.
 

While the low and falling squadron strength of the IAF is a big concern, the Rafale and S-400 acquisitions can act as a bulwark against the inevitable low squadron strength in the near future. After a decade of decadence, the Modi-Parrikar duo deserve accolades for their decisive action in untangling the Rafale fighter jet deal, and for the very quick progress on the S-400 deal

















 

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*"Annual Revisions in Pensions do not happen anywhere in the World*" - Arun Jetley

 

 

 

*Some other things that do not happen anywhere in the world except India*:-

 

 

 

1. Commander in Chief who has no idea of what he is commanding.

 

2. Central police forces that are headed by people who have never commanded troops.

 

 

3. *The military is left out of all decision making processes concerning military matters*.

 

 

4. *Police forces are used for “VIP” protection and the army is expected to do police work*.

 

 

5. *The majority of the country’s leadership are either uneducated, overage, unhealthy and/or have criminal records*.

 

 

6. Political leaders occupy sprawling mansions with a pittance for rent.

 

 

7. *A Member of Parliament is entitled to a pension and perks even if he/she has been a MP for just one day*. AND  Military officers get demoted even in their retirement in the name of

CADRE REVIEW

 

8. Parliament does not function for a single day during a session.

 

9. *A system of reservations for jobs and promotions ensures that the country will remain in mediocrity for perpetuity*.

 

10. *And last, but not the least, an individual whose loss in an election proves his loser status is rewarded with the most important portfolio in the cabinet*.

 

 

 

 

This should be made viral..