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Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari also said that in the last one year, due to the
challenges faced in the harsh atmosphere of the region, "we have realised, where we fell short"
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New Delhi: The situation that developed in eastern Ladakh last year required
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In an interaction at a defence conclave, he also said that in the last one year, due
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"The situation that developed in eastern Ladakh last year was something that we
were not very familiar with, particularly in the kind of environment that we needed
to operate. It required acclimatisation of a large number of personnel at short
notice, required stretching our equipment to limits, which some of it were not
cleared for," he said.

The IAF chief said, "we have moved equipment to altitude, well above the
altitudes they were tried and tested for, when we acquired those systems."

Following the escalation in tension in eastern Ladakh in mid-June last year, the
IAF deployed almost all its frontline fighter jets like Sukhoi 30 MKI, Jaguar and
Mirage 2000 aircraft as well as its attack helicopters in the key air bases in
eastern Ladakh and elsewhere along the Line of Actual Control.

At the conclave held at the Constitution Club of India, the IAF chief, in response to
a question, also shared other challenges faced by the air force in the region.

There was also the challenge of continuously rotating the manpower, to take care
of their health, he said.

"As a result, over the last one year, we have realised, where we fell short, whether
it was in terms of adequate clothing, shelters for people to live there. So, we have
overcome all those shortages now, and I think, we are better prepared, in case
there is a long haul, we are prepared this winter, much better than what we were
last year," he said.

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During the 89th IAF Day speech at Hindon Airbase on October 8, Chaudhari had
asserted that the IAF's prompt actions in response to developments in eastern
Ladakh last year were a testament to its combat readiness.

The year gone by was "quite challenging yet extremely rewarding", he had said.

In response to another question on threats faced by India, he said, "I can assure
you that we are fully aware of the threats that we face, and our acquisitions,
training, and tactics developed to counter such a threat".

The IAF chief also said that the ability to "seamlessly integrate" new weapons,
new data, into the network and train its personnel to operate them, and keep them
"future-ready" was the way forward.

"I can say with some degree of confidence that the way we go about analysing the
threat perception, carrying out global scan of the political situation, of the
acquisitions and modernisation of the adversaries, and to counter that we plan are
our own acquisition for air force, and linked to that is training, and development of
new tactics," he said.

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"Every time you find there is an imbalance in technology and pure numbers, we
counter it with better tactics and better training," the IAF chief added.

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