Indian Army ready for winter endurance test at 5,800 meters on Pangong Tso finger 4 against PLA


At the height of 5,800 meters on Finger 4 mountain spur, a winter endurance test will be conducted this winter with the Indian Army and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) facing each other with the first short snowfall. which has already fallen into the Karakoram and Kailash ranges. in the Ladakh region.

While the winter is expected to worsen after Diwali this year, the situation at all sticking points is a stalemate with the PLA accusing the Indian military of raising the stakes south of Pangong Tso from August 29-30, as As a result of which his alleged that the withdrawal plans were sunk.

The situation along the 1,597 km Royal Line of Control (LAC) in Ladakh remains tense but under control with a small detachment of the Indian Army clashing with a PLA detachment at Gogra Hot Springs or at patrol point 17 A The situation in the north bank of Pangong Tso is that a small number of troops on both sides are at the level of finger 4 with the PLA stationed behind finger 6 and the Indian army on finger 3. There is no PLA presence in the ground level of the EPL four or five, but in the dominating the height of finger four.

On the southern shores of Pangong Tso, the Indian army is dominating the Rezang la-Rechin La ridge line in the Kailash ranges with strong positions to defend the LAC despite the PLA presence in Black Top and Helmet with the Indian soldiers between the two in the saddle. “The situation is that both sides are defending their positions, but the ridge line in the area is with the Indian army,” said a military commander familiar with the positions of the two armies.

Although the Indian Army will have a new Ladakh Corps Commander in Lieutenant General PG K Menon instead of Lieutenant General Harinder Singh in October, the former is the colonel of the Sikh regiment who doles out the best Punjabi swear words despite being from Kerala. He has vast experience in LAC as he was the XIV Corps Brigade (Operations) staff in Ladakh before commanding a division at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.

While the PLA has deployed a mechanized infantry brigade force around Tien-Wien Dien through the Daulet Beg Oldi LAC, Indian Army troops are patrolling the Depsang pumping area within patrol limits despite the Chinese efforts to block them. The PLA’s air activity in this area is higher than in the southern DBO sector due to the proximity of the Hotan Air Base in Tibet.

As another round of Indian and Chinese military-diplomatic dialogue will soon take place for the total disengagement of Ladakh, Indian army commanders are prepared for the long winter ahead. Starting in November, it will be the resistance powers of a voluntary army (India) against the conscript army (PLA) that will be on display. Sitting on the glacial heights of the Saltoro mountain range since 1984, the Indian army is sure to give the adversary a race for money.

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