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Secret airfield on Chinese border



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File photo of Su-30 fighter of Indian Air Force

It was recently revealed that India has quietly built and put into service (last year) an airfield for transports in the north (Uttarakhand) near their border with China. While the airfield can also be used to bring in urgently needed supplies for local civilians during those months when snow blocks the few roads, it is mainly there for military purposes in case China “invades” again.


Uttarakhand is near Kashmir, and a 38,000 square kilometer chunk of land that China seized after a brief war with India in 1962. This airfield, and several similar projects along the Chinese border are all about growing fears of continued Chinese claims on Indian territory.


India is alarmed at increasing strident Chinese insistence that is owns of Arunachal Pradesh (China’s South Tibet area). This has led to an increased movement of Indian military forces to that remote area.


India has discovered that a buildup in these remote areas is easier said than done. Moreover, the Indians have discovered that they are far behind Chinese efforts. When they took a closer look, Indian staff officers found that China had improved its road network along most of their 4,000 kilometer common border. Indian military planners calculated that, as a result of this network, Chinese military units can move 400 kilometers a day on hard surfaced roads, while Indian units can only move half as fast, while suffering more vehicle damage because of the many unpaved roads. Building more roads will take years. The roads are essential to support Indian plans to build more airfields near the border, and stationing modern fighters there. Once the terrain was surveyed and calculations completed, it was found that it would take a lot more time, because of the need to build maintenance facilities, roads to move in fuel and supplies, and housing for military families.


All these border disputes have been around for centuries, but became more immediate when India and China fought a short war, up in these mountains, in 1962. The Indians lost, and are determined not to lose a rematch. But so far, the Indians have been falling farther behind China. This situation developed because India, decades ago, decided that one way to deal with a Chinese invasion was to, well, make it difficult for them to move forward. Thus for decades, the Indians built few roads on their side of the border. But that also made it more difficult for Indian forces to get into the disputed areas.


Putting more roads into places like Arunachal Pradesh (83,000 square kilometers and only a million people) and Uttarakhand (53,566 square kilometers and ten million people) will improve the economy, as well as military capabilities. This will be true of most of the border area. But all the roads won't change the fact that most of the border is mountains, the highest mountains (the Himalayas) in the world. So no matter how much you prepare for war, no one is going very far, very fast, when you have to deal with these mountains.


India is moving several infantry divisions, several squadrons of Su-30 fighters and six of the first eight squadrons of its new Akash air defense missile systems to the Chinese border. Most of these will initially go into Assam, just south of Arunachal Pradesh/South Tibet area, until the road network is built up sufficiently to allow bases to be maintained closer to the border. (Strategypage)
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