Southern Army, with its key strike formation Sudarshan Chakra Corps, will conduct “Sindhu Sudarshan-II” military exercise from November 29 to December 4 in Pokhran firing range of Jaisalmer. The drill aims to assess capability of striking enemy’s territory during an integrated air-land battle.
Defence minister Rajnath Singh and Army chief would be present in the exercise. It underscores Indian Army’s resolve to implement the integrated launch of Strike Corps in developed and desert terrain in consonance with its enunciated pro-active strategy using Integrated Battle Groups (IBGs) along the Western Front. Army’s para-commanding team will participate in the event where paratroopers will do para-trooping in the front of defence minister.
Official sources said, “The exercise will witness more than 40,000 troops and various types of 450 Battle Tanks including T-90 Tanks and various gun and all arms battle array of divisions and brigades carrying out offensive operations in deserts. This will provide the unique opportunity to employ entire mechanized formations consisting of tanks and Infantry Combat Vehicles in order to evaluate the capability to strike deep along Western Borders. The indigenously manufactured Pinaka MBRL, Smerch rocket system and 155mm K-9 Vajra will also showcase their shoot and scoot capability.”
The two month long exercise will witness the Army assessing the operational efficiency of the strike corps to fight in the desert terrain and the Indian Air Force to provide intimate support in terms of destruction of targets and air lifting troops. Unique in scope and scale, the drill will simulate battlefield conditions and focus on fine tuning surveillance and destruction mechanisms to support precision strikes and manoeuvres by network enabled forces.
A high degree of synergy between the Army and the IAF will be reviewed by Lieutenant General S K Saini, sources added.
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