CHINA-INDIA: PLA PORTAL CLAIMS CHINA HAS BUILT DOZENS OF HANGARS AND NEW AMMO DEPOTS IN NGARI AREA

A PLA website on June 22 observed that "One year has passed since the Sino-Indian border conflict, but India is still not reconciled to the initial failure and has been making small moves. The Chinese Air Force dispatched more than 20 fighters to conduct large-scale exercises near Ladakh. As a result, India’s sensitive nerves were stimulated". It added that "The US global security think tank "Strategic Prediction Company" concluded by analyzing satellite photos that China's logistics facilities such as airports in the region are significantly stronger than those of India". The post went on to say "The Chinese Air Force dispatched about 20 J-11 and J-16 fighters from multiple airports around the Ladakh region to conduct large-scale aerial exercises. This move was considered by the outside world to be intentional against India.
Information indicates that the PLA has built at least 12 hangars and new ammunition depots in the Ngari area. This means that the frequency of PLA fighter jets will be greatly increased in the future, which completely solves the previously exposed problems such as insufficient logistical maintenance. It can be said that India boasted that it "can rely on the tactics of aircraft and sea to overwhelm the PLA in the Sino-Indian border area", even the US experts disagree. This also reminds us from another aspect that the United States has moved closer to India in recent years, especially in the sharing of intelligence on the Sino-Indian border. The United States took advantage of India's geographical advantage to be close to China, and put the "American Eye" on Indian equipment to obtain intelligence that the United States could not obtain, with sinister intentions, and at the same time provoking discord and deliberately causing trouble.
The J-16 fighter jet deployed by the PLA on the Sino-Indian border occupies an absolute dominant position, while the Rafale fighter jet purchased by the Indian Air Force from France is difficult to compare with. Looking at the types of aircraft deployed by the Indian Air Force on the Sino-Indian border today, none of the combat performance can be compared to the J-16. At present, there is a huge gap in the strength of the fighter aircraft deployed by the Chinese and Indian Air Forces in the border areas. Even if India hoards all the advanced fighters that can be used on the front line of China and India, it is also difficult to control the air power, and the entire army is pressed to the front line of China and India.
At present, most of the main forces of the Indian Air Force still use old fighters such as MiG-21 to make up the number. In the face of new fighters such as the PLA’s J-16, once a conflict breaks out, using these old fighters to execute the so-called air-to-air tactics will have no chance of winning. The simple numbers in modern warfare can no longer determine the victory of the war. This is the most basic common sense. Especially in wars that are increasingly focused on systematic operations, intelligence, logistics, joint command, and coordinated operations are king. The military thinking of the Indians was still alive in the 1980s. What kind of frontline deployment of heavy troops, and what kind of tactics of the sea, as long as they can't stand it, the back will be a big drop."






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