Brahmos, Rafale & more: How India is fortifying Chicken’s Neck area amid Chinese threat

India has deployed its Rafale fighter jets and Brahmos missiles in forward areas in North Bengal. Chinese and Indian forces have been in a border standoff since May 2020. Both weapons systems are deployed to strengn and prepare armed forces to counter Chinese threats.

India has deployed a lot of vanced equipment to counter Chinese threat like Brahmos missile, Rafale fighter jets, S400 air defence systems and MR SAM air defence systems. India and China were engaged in a border standoff, between India, China and Bhutan, where China attempted to construct ro. ro construction would have allowed Chinese to Jampheri ridge, from where Siliguri corridor would be threatened.

Weapon system deployed by India to counter China

Dassault Rafale

It is a 4.5 generation aircraft which is manufactured by Dassault aviation. It is a french multi role fighter aircraft. Indian air force has ordered a total of 36 of se aircrafts. Indian air force has inducted a squron of 18 fighter jets at Hasimara air base in West Bengal.

Brahmos missile system

It is a supersonic land attack cruise missile, which was jointly manufactured by India and Russia. name is derived from Brahmaputra river of India and Moskava river of Russia. missile has a maximum speed of 2.9 mach and can destroy enemy targets at a range of more than 290 kilometres.

MR SAM air defence system

MR SAM (Medium Range Surface to Air missile) is an air defence system that India’s DRDO jointly developed with Israel. It can detect aerial targets from ranges above 70 km. Army’s 33 corps inducted it in early February.

S400 missile defence system

India and Russia signed a deal worth over Rs 35,000 crore. system has a range of upto 400 km. deliveries of systems are expected to be by end of 2023-24. It has alrey participated in many exercises and Indian system is superior to Chinese system. se systems are alrey deployed near China border. 

For ballistic targets, its range is 200km. It has a speed of 4800 m/s and and RCS of 0.4 sq meters, for a target with an RCS of 4 sq meters, range is 390 km for targeting strategic bomber sized s its range is 400 km. It can perform functions of command post for battalions of S400 defence system.