New Delhi: India has now mobilized the latest Jet Fighter Rafale Rafale close to the Sikkim-Bhutan-Tibetan Tri Junction in the eastern part of China, which is a new prevention before the next round of top military talks between the two countries is likely on Saturday.
Eight new Rafale, armed with a clear weapon package, was officially appointed in the 101 ‘Falcons of Chhamb and Akhnoor’ squadron at the Hasimara Air Base in West Bengal on Wednesday.
As Rafales 4.5-generation tore into the sky with a sonic boom to destroy the tranquility of Hasimara, Head of the Air IAF Marshal RKS Bhadauria said 101 squadons with “unparalleled potential” from new fighters “will dominate anytime and anywhere, make sure the enemy will always be intimidated by their presence “.
The first Rafale squadron, 17 gold arrows’, has fully operated at Ambala Airbase with full complement 18 fighters, who have conducted regular sort in East Ladakh in the midst of sustainable military confrontation with China there.
The remaining 10 of the 36 Rafales Twin machines, which were contracted based on the agreement of RS 59,000 Crore inked with France in September 2016, scheduled to arrive in a batch before the deadline for April next year.
The spread of Rafales from France in the East Sector, along with Sukhoi-30MKI fighters from Russia has been operating from airbase like Tezpur and Chabua, will lead to China’s offensive blows.
China, of course, has four times the number of fighters and bombers compared to IAF.
It has also increased its main air base such as Hotan, Kashgar, Gargunsa (Ngari Gunsa), Lhasa-Gonggar and Shigatse for additional fighters and bombers since the first-May crisis last year.
But the IAF has a different “advantage of the field” in potential battles, both in terms of air fighting and land attacks, along the actual control line of 3,488 km, stretching from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh.
The Chinese air base that overlooks India is located at a high altitude with a rare air, which is very limiting the weapons and the capacity of fublers.
In addition, the IAF officers, their enhanced Mirage-2000s, Jet MIG-29 and Sukhoi-30MKI, and now the latest Rafales, are technically superior than most of the Chinese fighters.
With a 780-km combat range to 1,650-km depending on the mission, Rafales is armed with a long prominent weapon such as the `scalp ‘missile which is more than 300 km.
They also have a leading meteor air-to-air missile, which with a break strike 120 to 150 km is better than any missile which is currently carried by Chinese jets or Pakistan.
The IAF had also ordered the “hammer” precision guided ammunition, which had a range of 20 to 70-km attacks to destroy bunkers, hardened shelters and other targets, for Rafales.
Although Ambala and Hasimara will be ‘main operating house base’ for Rafales, which also has advanced avionics, radars and electronic warfare systems to prevent disruption by enemies and ensure superior air continuity in contested air areas, fighters can operate from where only in countries like and if needed.