NEW DELHI – Indian Army is planning to deploy a number of its air defenceunits close to the border to thwart aerial threats emanating from Pakistan.
“Some of the fighting formations including air defence and other defensiveformations are now planned to be moved closer to the borders,” top Armysources told ANI.
“With these air defence units deployed closer to the border, we would beable to tackle any possible aerial strike from enemy side and thwart itclose to the border itself,” they said.
The sources said the location of the air defence units deployed in Jammuand Kashmir, Punjab, Gujarat and Rajasthan were reviewed by the force andit was felt that a number of them can be moved to forward locations tothwart enemy aerial strikes close to the borders itself.
The air defence assets of the Indian Army include the indigenous Akash airdefence missile systems along with the Russian Kvadrat and other old legacysystems.
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The force is also set to receive the latest MR-SAM air defence system whichhas been produced by the DRD-Israel joint venture.
Even though the attack was thwarted by the Air Force air defence fightersincluding the MiG-21s and the Su-30MKIs, it was felt that presence of airdefence units in the area could have caused more damage to the Pakistanis.
Pakistanis come a couple of kilometres inside the Indian territory.ThePakistani air attack on February 27 was in response to the Balakot hits bythe Indian Air Force a day earlier.
