Posted on 04/23/2013 9:58:14 PM PDT by Jyotishi
I’m sure his margins for error were very, very narrow.
I didn’t even know they could go that high until I checked.
Very narrow.
I didn’t think it was possible, It certainly is not feasible.
India’s new Dhruv helicopter is capable of ferrying troops and supplies up to Siachen, and it’s domestically-developed. China’s got more mature aircraft development capabilities, so high-altitude stuff is probably more within their reach. In any case, most of the Leh/Ladakh area is well within the ceiling of most military helicopters, though they’d have to fly between peaks to get in there.
LOC - line of control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apddqw6Ks4g
Yes there’s LOC and then there’s LAC:
The Line of Actual Control (LAC)(also known as the MacCartney-MacDonald Line) is the effective border between India and People’s Republic of China (PRC). The LAC is 4,057-km long and traverses three areas of northern Indian states: western (Ladakh, Kashmir), middle (Uttarakhand, Himachal) and eastern (Sikkim, Arunachal).[1] Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai first used the phrase in a letter addressed to Indian Prime Minister Nehru dated 24 October 1959.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_Actual_Control
Mountain passes are wind tunnels.
Since long before Tibet, the Chinese have demonstrated they consider occupation tantamount to ownership.
Good luck, India.
One Ghurka could resolve it quickly.
You have “suspected”?
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