India sends fighter jets in response to China’s long-range bomber at the border: Report
New Delhi: The Chinese Army has deployed one long-range H-6K bomber to its border with India as the security forces of India are not ready to fall back at the border.
The Indian Army at China border is not ready to fall steps back as China challenges India and its sovereignty. China’s border dispute with India is like bone in the neck for China, which Beijing cannot swallow or digest.
To mark the PLA Air Force’s 72nd anniversary on November 11, Chinese media aired footage that included a brief shot of an H-6K flying over a mountain range, indicating the aircraft had been sent to the Himalayas.
According to a media report the People’s Liberation Army has deployed at least one long-range strategic H-6K bomber to its borders with India in a move meant as a warning to the Indian military not to escalate tensions over winter. The aircraft was armed with short-range KD-63 missiles – and not the long-range CJ-20 cruise missiles that it is also designed to carry.
A china-based military expert said that “the H-6Ks were usually based in Shaanxi province but had been stationed in Kashgar in the neighboring western region of Xinjiang on a temporary basis since last year. The aircraft came under the Western Theatre Command, which includes the Xinjiang and Tibet military districts and is responsible for the border security along the contested frontier with India.”
China’s military commentator Song Zhongping said that “PLA was focused less on the Indian capital and more on the country’s airbases, missile launch sites and other military posts near the borders. China will not attack civilian areas, so Delhi will not be targeted by air-launched missiles even though the capital is quite close to the border.”
According to the Indian media report, in response to the PLA deployment, the Indian Air Force sent Mig-29UPG and Su-30MKI fighter jets to their frontline airbases in Ladakh, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh, the three key contested areas along the two countries’ disputed border, the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
The commander-level talks began in May 2020, when friction first broke out on multiple locations along the LAC, which stretches over thousands of kilometers. The military confrontation peaked in June last year when at least two dozen soldiers were killed in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh.
(_Vinayak)
