With the objective of honing their operational readiness in meeting any challenge from China, the strategic forces of the Indian Army including its elite commandos of the Shatrujeet Brigade and IAF in the first week of April jointly conducted a multi domain exercise in the Eastern Theatre.
China had tried to change the status quo at the Line of Actual Control(LAC)in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh on December nine last year. It led to a clash between the troops from both the sides and some soldiers from both the armies also received injuries.
The drill was undertaken to validate joint plans for strategic airlift of specialised forces employing IAF fixed and rotary wing platforms by landing and dropping in designated areas for undertaking kinetic actions to provide surge to ongoing operations by regular land forces, sources said here on Thursday.
Such Special Operations Exercises are a mix of conventional and unconventional military actions that are undertaken by specially designated, selected, trained and equipped units.
The C17 Globemaster transport aircraft, Chinooks and Mi 17s helicopters undertook multi-mode insertion into designated greenfield landing zones with surgical precision.
Paratroopers from the Shatrujeet Brigade conducted special heliborne operations with the aim of validating their ability to rapidly deploy into hostile environment using Chinooks and Mi17 helicopters to augment the capability of the regular ground forces.