IAF deploys Sukhoi fighters in Punjab, Army to conduct largest tabletop war game in Pune
New Delhi, Sep 25: India on Tuesday inducted its frontline Sukhoi combat planes at its air force's Halwara base in Punjab, bordering Pakistan.The Su-30 MKI, the India-built version of the Russian-origin combat jets, will replace
This is the first such warfare strategising exercise under present army chief General Bikram Singh.
The war game, played over a tabletop, is being held at a time when Pakistan is holding its largest two-month army field exercise by its Karachi-based V Corps beginning Tuesday (and will go on till middle of November), at a location overlooking Jaisalmer across the border in India's Rajasthan, to finalise its warfare concepts aimed at India.
Hosted by the Pune-based Southern Army Command from Wednesday to Friday, the war game is expected to have Gen. Bikram Singh taking part, a top army officer told IANS here.
"Tabletop war games are much more complex and sophisticated in terms of content, brain-storming and evolving of warfare concepts to counter the enemy's defensive tactics and offensive strategies. Field exercises are for validating the concepts evolved at tabletop war games," a senior army officer explained.
"Senior officers from all seven commands of the Indian army and key formations are participating in the war game," he said.
The war game, played over a tabletop, is being held at a time when Pakistan is holding its largest two-month army field exercise by its Karachi-based V Corps beginning Tuesday (and will go on till middle of November), at a location overlooking Jaisalmer across the border in India's Rajasthan, to finalise its warfare concepts aimed at India.
Hosted by the Pune-based Southern Army Command from Wednesday to Friday, the war game is expected to have Gen. Bikram Singh taking part, a top army officer told IANS here.
"Tabletop war games are much more complex and sophisticated in terms of content, brain-storming and evolving of warfare concepts to counter the enemy's defensive tactics and offensive strategies. Field exercises are for validating the concepts evolved at tabletop war games," a senior army officer explained.
"Senior officers from all seven commands of the Indian army and key formations are participating in the war game," he said.