China's PLA Deploys S-400 Squadrons Across LAC
China has deployed S-400 squadrons in Hotan air base in Xinjiang and Nyingchi air base in Tibet. These two bases are across Ladakh and Arunachal.
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat on Tuesday stated that air defence became turning into increasingly more complicated withinside the large context of the proposed putting in of an air defence theatre command. He stated there had been massive use of air space, now no longer confined to simply plane and helicopters. The ongoing stand-off with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) on China in East Ladakh with the presence of S-400 squadrons of anti-plane structures at Hotan airbase in Xinjiang and Nyingchi airbase in Tibet, simply throughout Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh respectively, has pressured the countrywide protection planners right into a reconsider approximately air defence and countermeasures. To upload to this more and more complicated situation are armed UAVs, swarm drones, missiles and rockets, which can be now a part of the stand-by myself weapon structures of the PLA. While India is anticipated to get 5 squadrons of S-400 structures from Russia beginning Dec…