INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Indian Air Force conducts its massive exercise - Gagan Shakti 2018 - along the China-India border in Arunachal Pradesh, Defence Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman visited forward bases in Assam and Arunachal today to see the Air Force's preparedness.The defence minister landed at the
Chabua Air Force Station in Upper Assam and then took a Mi-17 helicopter and went to Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh.At Pasighat Advanced
Landing Ground, two Sukhoi Su-30 MKI fighter jets took off and then a C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft landed, from which Garud
a tower with the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, was also observing the bomb drop area, with one camera placed at the
observes Sukhoi SU-30 MKIs dropping bombs"Now, within two hours, we can reach from the western frontier to the eastern border
Never before had such a massive Air Force exercise taken place
is one of Air Force's biggest wargames specifically designed to deal with any simultaneous threat posed by Pakistan and China
As a part of the ongoing exercise, the Air Force is conducting Inter Valley Troop Transfers (IVTT), Special Heliborne Operations, Air Landed
Operations and Special Operations to simulated objective areas.
