Tezpur base near Indo-China border soon to get a squadron of Su-30 MKIs

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Tezpur base soon to get Sukhois​

26 May 2009,

GUWAHATI: IAF's Tezpur base will soon get Sukhoi fighter planes as part of its upgradation plans to meet challenges from China.

Sources said the newly-raised squadron of Su-30 MKI will arrive at the renovated base after June 15 when the renovated runway becomes operational.

This will be the first batch of Su-30MKI fighters to be deployed near the disputed Sino-Indian border in the north-eastern sector of the Eastern Air Command. Earlier, the Tezpur base housed a squadron of MIG 21 which was shifted to Chabua in 2007.

A source said the Su-30MKI is likely to be fitted with air-to-ground Brahmos missile with more than 900 combat radius enabling it to strike all major cities in southwest China.

Defence sources said the induction of Su-30MKI would greatly tilt the balance in favour of India in view of China's superior ground troops in the sector.

Spread over 21 acre, the Tezpur airbase was put under repair after the MiG-21s were shifted to Chabua. The infrastructure has also been upgraded. "The renovated runway is likely to be inaugurated by mid-June for inducting the Su-30MKI squadron," said Tezpur-based defence spokesman Col R Kalia.

Located less than 350 km from the McMohan Line that divides India and China, the air base was made a MiG-operational flying unit for training young officers before they were commissioned as full-fledged pilots as tension between India and China eased after 1970.

Sources said India has strategic air bases at Baghdogra, Hashimara and Cooch Behar to counter China. Other important bases in this sector are located in Chabua, Guwahati, Jorhat, Kalaikunda and Agartala.


Tezpur base soon to get Sukhois - Guwahati - Cities - The Times of India

 

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IAF moving Sukhoi base to northeast to thwart Chinese threat​

9 Jun 2009,

TEZPUR (Assam): A squadron of the frontline combat aircraft Sukhoi 30- MKI would become operational in India's sensitive northeast next week, a strategic decision to move advanced assets close to the Chinese border, defence officials said Tuesday.

A defence spokesperson said four multi-role strike fighter jets would land June 15 at the Indian Air Force (IAF) base in Tezpur, about 185 km north of Assam's main city of Guwahati.

"Four Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter jets would land first and soon it would be a full squadron comprising of 18 aircraft," defence spokesperson Colonel R. Kalia said.

Capable of carrying nuclear weapons and tailor-made for Indian specifications, Su-30 MKI is a variant of the Sukhoi Su-30 jointly-developed by Russia's Sukhoi Corporation and India's Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) for the IAF.

"There are more plans to improve infrastructure in the northeastern region, including developing four or five airfields and advanced landing grounds, besides putting our best assets in the region," a senior IAF official said requesting not to be named.

The decision to set up a squadron of the most potent fighter jet in service with the IAF follows repeated allegations of Chinese incursions in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh in the last few years.

The IAF base at Tezpur is within striking distance from the Chinese border along Arunachal Pradesh.

According to union home ministry reports, there were about 270 'violations' by China on India's western, middle and eastern sectors in 2008, while there were 60 such incidents reported so far this year.

Beijing had in 2003 given up its territorial claim over the Indian state of Sikkim but was still holding on to its age old stand that a vast stretch of Arunachal Pradesh belongs to them.

The mountainous state of Arunachal Pradesh shares a 1,030 km (650-mile) unfenced border with China.

The India-China border along Arunachal Pradesh is marked by the McMahon Line, an imaginary border which is now known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

India and China fought a bitter border war in 1962, with Chinese troops advancing deep into Arunachal Pradesh and inflicting heavy casualties on Indian troops.

The border dispute with China was inherited by India from British colonial rulers, who hosted a 1914 conference with the Tibetan and Chinese governments that set the border in what is now Arunachal Pradesh.

China has never recognized the 1914 boundary, known as the McMahon Line, and claims 90,000 sq km (34,750 square miles) -- nearly all -- of Arunachal Pradesh. India also accuses China of occupying 8,000 sq km (14,670 square miles) in Kashmir.

"Setting up of advanced air bases and plans to increase military strength in the region is to meet future national security challenges," an army commander based at the Four Corps Headquarters at Tezpur said on customary conditions of anonymity.


IAF moving Sukhoi base to northeast to thwart Chinese threat 9 Jun 2009,

 

[Moscow]

A source said the Su-30MKI is likely to be fitted with air-to-ground Brahmos missile with more than 900 combat radius enabling it to strike all major cities in southwest China.


funny how did the source know that the air to ground brahmos missile is ready for induction?
journalists really make things out of their own? the air launched version is not even tried or tested 4 su30 aircraft are undergoing structural changes in russia to try and test this missile in 2010 and yet the source say that the 4 aircraft on the tezpur base will have brahmos.

but seeing the mki in advanced positions is good altough four in number i came to know 18 will be there in 3 months time are all of them will be sourced from pune or from other sq numbers will be merged to raise this

 

[yh1]

A source said the Su-30MKI is likely to be fitted with air-to-ground Brahmos missile with more than 900 combat radius enabling it to strike all major cities in southwest China.


funny how did the source know that the air to ground brahmos missile is ready for induction?
journalists really make things out of their own? the air launched version is not even tried or tested 4 su30 aircraft are undergoing structural changes in russia to try and test this missile in 2010 and yet the source say that the 4 aircraft on the tezpur base will have brahmos.

but seeing the mki in advanced positions is good altough four in number i came to know 18 will be there in 3 months time are all of them will be sourced from pune or from other sq numbers will be merged to raise this

MKI is no big deal when it comes to meet PLAAF, especially when it takes off from an airfield only 150km from Chinese border. PLA will buster all Indian airports within 600kms from Chinese border with SRBMs that have been prepared for Taiwan.

 

[Jako]

MKI is no big deal when it comes to meet PLAAF, especially when it takes off from an airfield only 150km from Chinese border. PLA will buster all Indian airports within 600kms from Chinese border with SRBMs that have been prepared for Taiwan.

hahah....care to share how the mki is no match for plaaf......or you are just bluffing round?

 

[King Julien]

MKI is no big deal when it comes to meet PLAAF, especially when it takes off from an airfield only 150km from Chinese border. PLA will buster all Indian airports within 600kms from Chinese border with SRBMs that have been prepared for Taiwan.

if you know about those SRBM, what makes you think IAF didn't??
don't you think they must be planning about stuff?
please THINK before you post.