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Latest satellite imagery shows China is tracking the depths of Pangong Tso as well through new techniques used for anti-submarine warfare by navies around the world. Pangong Tso lake in eastern Ladakh (Image | go2ladakh) Since the time the Indo-China border standoff began, the People's Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF) has been keeping the surface of Pangong Tso under surveillance through high-speed patrol crafts such as Type 305 and Type 928D boats copied from Swedish CB-90 boats . But latest satellite imagery shows China is now tracking the depths of Pangong Tso as well through new techniques used for anti-submarine warfare by navies around the world. On July 31, India Today OSINT team had reported the presence of at least 13 boats between Finger 4 and Finger 8. The boat squadron was boosted by at least eight new boats from a major base at Rimutang to Kunrak Fort and Finger 5 , barely 2.5 km from Finger 4 . And now, latest satellite images from depth areas, especially Chin...

The Tibetan community in Ladakh and BJP Secretary Ram Madhav came together to pay tribute to Nyima Tenzin, who was killed on the night of 29-30 August in Chushul. Nyima Tenzin | File photo Nyima Tenzin, a Tibetan-Indian hero of the elite covert paramilitary unit Special Frontier Force (SFF) who was killed on the night of 29-30 August in eastern Ladakh, was given a final farewell with a 21-gun salute Monday.  The 51-year-old soldier died after he stepped on to a 1962 vintage anti-personnel mine near the southern bank of the Pangong lake, Army sources had said. The incident occurred around the time when the Indian Army launched a major operation and outflanked the Chinese in capturing dominating features near the southern bank of Pangong Tso in the Chushul sector.  On Monday, the Tibetan community in Ladakh came together to pay tribute to the soldier who belonged to 7 Vikas battalion of the SFF, which is also known as Establishment 22. Senior BJP leader Ram Madhav attended the f...

Representative Image The Army is now undertaking a major study headed by a senior Lt-General on advanced "niche and disruptive warfare technologies", which range from drone swarms, robotics, lasers and loiter munitions to artificial intelligence, big data analysis and algorithmic warfare. Sources on Friday said the aim of the "holistic study", which comes amidst the ongoing military confrontation in eastern Ladakh with China, is to bolster the conventional war-fighting capabilities of the 13-lakh strong Army as well as prepare for "non-kinetic and non-combat" warfare in the years ahead. China, of course, has been assiduously working to develop futuristic warfare technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI)-powered lethal autonomous weapon systems, towards its overall endeavor to usher in a major "revolution in military affairs (RMA) with Chinese characteristics". Indian Army's new land warfare doctrine in 2018 had stressed the need to shar...

The demand comes a day after the Army Chief went on a two-day visit to Arunachal Pradesh to review preparedness at forward points along the Line of Actual Control.   Indian Army Chief General MM Naravane Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Friday asked his field commanders to be prepared for any eventuality and maintain the highest operational preparedness. His demand comes a day after the Army Chief went to Arunachal Pradesh on a two-day visit to the forward points along the Line of Actual Control in the north-eastern state amid expansionist misadventures by China into Indian territory. The Army General’s visit at a time China has moved its troops into Indian land and has refused to disengage the troop build-up, artillery and armour in western (Ladakh), middle (Uttarakhand and Himachal) and eastern (Sikkim and Arunachal) areas of the 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army also has soldiers near Uttarakhand’s Lipulekh Pass, a tri-j...

India will keep a close watch and carefully verify over the next 10 days whether Chinese soldiers pull back further for concrete "disengagement" between the rival troops in eastern Ladakh before discussing "de-escalation" at the next corps commander-level meeting. Representative Image The fifth round of talks between 14 Corps commander Lt Gen Harinder Singh and South Xinjiang Military District chief Maj Gen Liu Lin will be held after the "partial disengagement" at Pangong Tso and Gogra-Hot Springs, under way since the beginning of this month, "hopefully" leads to a "complete disengagement", top sources said. "The People's Liberation Army (PLA), in the fourth round on July 14, indicated its willingness to move back further at Pangong Tso and Gogra-Hot Springs. But it's consulting its politico-military hierarchy. We will have to wait to see how much it translates into actual action on the ground," a source said. This was...

The government’s high-powered China Study Group (CSG) on Wednesday reviewed the latest developments in eastern Ladakh, with focus on the next stage of disengagement between the Indian and Chinese armies following the 14-hour meeting between senior military commanders.   The focus of the current round of military talks is to hammer out a consensus on easing tensions between the two armies in the Finger Area and Depsang plains as well as pulling back weapons and equipment from friction points in other sectors.(PTI) India and China remain committed to “complete disengagement” which is an “intricate process” and “requires constant verification”, the Indian Army said in a statement on Thursday, two days after senior military commanders from both sides met at Chushul to discuss the road map for reducing tensions along the contested Line of Actual Control (LAC). “The senior commanders reviewed the progress on implementation of the first phase of disengagement and discussed further step...