06 November 2013

News Story: New Chinese monitoring station across DBO

Indian AirForce C-130 Hercules (File Photo)

LEH/NEW DELHI (PTI): With IAF now able to operate C-130 Hercules transport aircraft at high-altitude Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) sector in Ladakh, China is reported to have built a radar station on its side of the border ostensibly to monitor movement of Indian planes over the area.

The structure, according to official sources, has come up across the DBO on the Chinese aide which has described it as a weather station.

Indian technical experts, who have been monitoring this structure closely, have opined that it could be a radar station which apparently did not exist before. However, no signal has been emitted or received so far.

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