Updated Dec 29, 2020 | 22:13 IST
Apart from a slight dip in numbers of fighter aircraft in Tibet by about 10-15 per cent, the Chinese have kept about 80-100 fighters in Hoping, Gonggar, Hotan and Kashgar airfields. IAF Chief RKS Bhadauria (File Photo) | Photo Credit: IANS
New Delhi: While the Indian Army and the People s Liberation Army (PLA) remain face-to-face for the last eight months in Ladakh, the Chinese have maintained a strong air force presence in Tibet.
Government sources said the number of fighter aircraft in the Tier-1 airfields in Tibet have usually varied between 80 and 100. In the Tier-2 airfields, a distance away, there have been between 150 to 170. The numbers have not varied very much.
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One of the two Navy ships that attacked Anjadiv island in 1961.
PANAJI: While the Indian Army played a major role in Operation Vijay, which culminated in Goa’s Liberation on December 19, 1961, the two days of action were the first taste of combat for the Indian Navy post-independence.
About to come into its own, the Navy decided to dish out some strong lessons to the Portuguese. It started with Operation Chutney, which began as a surveillance patrol off Goa’s coast, but also helped prepare naval forces for an all-out attack on Anjadiv Island.
The attack on the Portuguese garrison on the island, which is located off the coast of Canacona, was necessitated after Portuguese soldiers resorted to unprovoked firing on Indian fishing vessels and a steamship, Sabarmati.