Once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope, this is an old Chinese saying, roughly means that if you suffer a loss in one place, you will walk around in the future. However, it is not known whether India does not have similar proverbs, or whether the brain circuits of Indians are different from ours, and our neighbor India has no taboos in this regard anyway. India has long been at a disadvantage in the struggle with China, but they just won't give up. The 12th ministerial-level negotiations between China and India on the border issue have not long passed, and India is now beginning to stir again.
On November 1, the Indian military announced an announcement on its official website. The main content of the announcement is that the fiftieth special airborne brigade, the most elite of the Indian army, has carried out a large-scale airborne insertion exercise in the northern area of Ladakh on the Sino-Indian border. It is understood that the unit was established in 1992 with the help of the Americans. The main role is to airdrop and intervene in the battlefield at key nodes of the campaign, focusing on small-scale special operations. Its main targets are strategic points behind enemy lines, such as logistics bases, missile bases, artillery positions, etc.
Thanks to pure American training and advanced equipment, the unit has repeatedly built miracles in less than 30 years of creation, and in the Indo-Pakistani War, it has always been able to cause damage to the artillery positions of the Pakistani army and the hinterland. Indian paratroopers have played a very important role in the fight against Sri Lankan Tamil guerrillas and in the suppression of military coups in the Maldives. Moreover, as far as the Sino-Indian border is concerned, the role of the 50th Special Airborne Brigade of the Indian Army is also particularly large.
In high-altitude areas such as the China-India border, planes are not easy to fly, vehicles are difficult to travel, and only airborne delivery is the fastest response and the most conducive way to quickly assemble. However, high-altitude skydiving is a worldwide problem, because the air is thin, the landing speed is fast, and the relative height is small, so if you are not careful, you will directly hit the ground. Therefore, highland parachuting must be accompanied by specialized highland parachutes and skilled warriors, who can be said to be the elite of the elite.
Therefore, from this point of view alone, there are still some technical and practical threats in the Indian army's airborne landing. To this end, Harlinder, a senior official of the Indian Intelligence Bureau, also shouted that this time, the reason why India's airborne troops want to hold exercises on the Sino-Indian border is to let The opposite China see clearly the gap with India. But in fact, compared with China, India has already lost in terms of means of delivery.
At the time of the Sino-Indian conflict last year, a certain brigade of our air force airborne troops adopted a variety of mobile methods such as civil aviation, logistics and transshipment, and railway transportation, and put personnel, materials, and weapons and equipment into a place thousands of miles away. In addition, a certain type of wheeled armored vehicle independently developed by China has long been officially installed in an airborne synthetic brigade, which is a new type of informationized armored equipment, which has strong mobility, strong firepower strike capability, and good comprehensive protection performance, which is suitable for a synthetic brigade of airborne troops, and is a new type of informationized armored equipment, which is not something that can be compensated only by the individual quality of Indian airborne troops. 【Three Soils】