This story is from February 1, 2023

Day ahead of IAF exercise, Army drill in eastern sector

The Army conducted a major joint combat exercise over the last 10 days with the Indian Air Force and central armed police forces (CAPFs) in North Bengal to practice battle preparedness in a networked and integrated environment, amid the heightened tensions in the eastern sector of the Line of Actual Control with China.
Day ahead of IAF exercise, Army drill in eastern sector
NEW DELHI: The Army conducted a major joint combat exercise over the last 10 days with the Indian Air Force and central armed police forces (CAPFs) in North Bengal to practice battle preparedness in a networked and integrated environment, amid the heightened tensions in the eastern sector of the Line of Actual Control with China.
Swift mobilisation and deployments, using the latest weapons and equipment, were carried out at different locations during ‘Trishakti Prahar’, which culminated with an integrated firepower exercise in the Teesta field firing ranges on Tuesday, sources said.
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The armed forces have taken a series of steps to “mitigate” the threat to the Siliguri Corridor, a narrow strip of land that connects the Northeast with the rest of India, as well as other vulnerable areas in the region.
The integrated Army drills come ahead of the massive ‘Poorvi Akash’ air combat exercise by the IAF in the entire eastern sector from February 1to 5, which will include Rafales and Sukhoi-30MKI fighters flying from airbases like Hasimara, Chabua and Tezpur.
Army chief General Manoj Pande had reviewed the operational military preparedness along the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh on January 22-23, the first such visit to the border state after Indian and Chinese troops clashed at Yangtse in the crucial Tawang sector on December 9.
There has been an escalation in tensions along the 1,346-km stretch of the LAC in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh in the past three-four months, with the People’s Liberation Army having also increased the number of its troops in the eastern sector.
This includes two additional ‘combined arms brigades’, each having around 4,500 soldiers with tanks, artillery and other weapons.
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