New Delhi: With the remaining Indian and Chinese forces left along the border at the East Ladakh for the second winter in a row, India increasingly increases the supply of logistics and stocking to high altitude regions.
Towards the end, Together Airlift exercises called ‘Hercules Operations’ were carried out by IAF and troops on Monday, with five C-17 Globemaster-III aircraft along with IL-76 and AN-32 aircraft from Chandigarh and other places to Ladakh .
“The aim of high intensity airlift is to strengthen logistics supply in the northern sector and to increase winter stockings in the operational area,” said an IAF officer.
“The effort is a real-time demonstration for the capabilities of the IAF weight lift attached, which has played a major role in ensuring the ability to quickly respond to every possibility during the past,” he added.
After the military confrontation with China erupted in East Ladakh in April-May last year, IAF has supported the army in the mobilization of troops and equipment that quickly to the operational area.
Army earlier this month also exercises “air insertion and battle” three holidays in East Ladakh, with hundreds of pre-acclimatized forces and heavy weapons systems dropped by paragraphs at a height of more than 14,000 feet minus 20 degrees temperature Celsius.
There was a deadlock so far in completing military confrontation for 18 months in Ladakh Timur, with China refused to complete the release of troops that were jammed in Patrolling Point-15 in the LA hot springs-gorry area in the 13th round in the round of 13 Corps commander talks at 10 October Save 50,000 of their respective soldiers together with tanks, howitzers and advanced surface-to-air missile systems used for the second winter in a hard high altitude area.