#kargilwar
Nearly 25 years gave passed since kargil war .the battle testified mountain warfare capabilities of indian army . In this thread we will talk about some intresting facts and statistics related to kargil war .
Please read this thread untill end.
In beginning of the operations nearly 446 millitary special trains carrying all logistical equipment as well as the troops and ammunition were mobilized towards the western borders.
The indian army military brass was somewhat unhappy about Prime minister vajpayee's declaration of not crossing LOC or IB . As per COAS sir @Vedmalik1 this issue was raised . If indian army weren't able to clear the intrusions they would have to cross the IB .
National Security Advisory Board, which included K.
Subrahmanyam (a well-known defence analyst), J.N. Dixit (a former foreign secretary) and three former service chiefs, had recommended to the CCS, that the Indian army should be allowed to cross the
border/ LoC.
The millitary buildup along the western border was going on smoothly . However the escalation was avoided with recapture of tololing and pt 5414 . Tololing was deepest intrusion carried by pak intruders . Once tololing fell indian successes would be more swift.
Indian army overall employed some 50 fire units comprising artillery guns ; mortars and rockets .
All these units fired 250000 rounds/rockets for a period of 90 days sometimes in space of 5minutes some 1200 rounds of explosives were fired at tololing and tiger hill.
The army aviation corps comprising 2 squadrons flew 2500 missions and 2700 flight hours. They initially airlifted 240 troops and about 200 tons ammunition.
Harsh terrain of battlik sector .
Pakistani intrusions in mushakoh and dras sectors .
Bodies of pak soldiers recovered from trenches during the war.
Arms and ammunition captured from pakistan army.
Some prisoners of war captured by indian army . It seems that along with NLI even regular pakistan army soldiers took part in war. 33 Frontier force ; 24 sindh.. all are regular pakistan army .
Identity cards recovered of pakistan army personal.
Captured pay books of pak army personal.
Captured diary of pakistan army personal- lt MD maaz ullah khan Sumbal of the 8 NLI.
Intercepted telephonic conversations between pervez musharraf and pak COAS lt gen muhammad aziz khan.
18 garhwal rifles with arms and ammunition captured from pt 5140.
Anti aircraft gun deployed at Gumri north of zojila pass.
Indian army convoys traveling through zojila pass carrying ammunition .
Summary of Kargil review committee on performance of indian troops.
After the war wife of Narayan Murthy - sudha murthy offered monetary assistance from Infosys foundation to soldiers who were captured by pakistan army and killed during interrogation.
Indian army burrys bodies of fallen pakistani soldiers . A true sign of professionalism. nytimes.com/1999/07/17/wor…
Morning routine of indian soldiers during kargil war in video!
Iaf MIG 29 patrolling over kargil area.
A top angle image of pt 4875 and tiger hill taken via an helicopter . Despite its serene view a major enemy counter attack was in progress when this image was taken.
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In this thread we will discuss about various circumstances which lead to end of kargil war.
post fall of tololing in June military situation of pak army heavily deteriorated. Pak held positions fell continuously And regularly like nailpins.
Prior fall of tololing indian army was making foolharded attacks . They still didn't knew the level of intrusions carried by pak NLI. Pak HQ calculations were based on assumptions that indians won't respond heavily. They tried to create a deception..
That it was the kashmiri Mujahideen not pak army which had infiltrated in kargil. Initially army believed in this delusion. This laid to death of many soldiers and loss of 1 mig 27 and a mi17 helicopter. Enemy sat on top and had full view of indian troops deployment.
Scenes of tribal invasion in city of muzaffarabad .
"They plundered the state armoury ; set markets on fire ."
All non Muslims were mascarred .
"The streets were littered with all kinds of destruction...
There were dead bodies floating on rivers ...
The raiders continued to loot and burn muzaffarabad for 3 days until sense prevailed in them and their leaders urged them to quickly advance to srinagar.
In this thread we will talk about chinese version of battle of rezangla pass of the 1962 india china war based on PLA millitary history.
So operations on the western sector of 1962 war come under the kangxiwa millitary command of Xinjiang millitary region . It was further divided into 4 sectors . 1. Tianwendian Defence Area .
2.Heweitan Defence Area .
3.Kongka Pass Defence Area
4.Ali Defence Area
The operations by PLA along the pangon tso River came under the ali defence area .
Unlike the Sela-bomdila front at kameng div battles in this area were of much lower intensity since the chinese didn't aimed for anhaliation in this sector .
Mysterious PLA ZANG ZI 419 (Tibetan force 419) was specially trained force set up to to fight in Himalayas. Roughly equivalent to strength of 1 indian div-10300 men .This force was responsible for destruction of 7th brigade under brig dalvi in battle of nam-ka-chu in 1962 war .
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#marchthroughdesert
Thread 🧵 on battles of sindh and Balmer sector .
In sindh sector Indian army made greatest gain territory wise in entire western front . The Indian army held territory more than 50km inside the international border yielding 5000+sqkm.
The operations in Balmer sector were to be carried out by 11th infantry division on 3 fronts. 1. Northern subsecor - mithrau-mankau -saideo-relnor -kitlor -Jamo.
2.centralsubsector- the objective was to march astride the khokrapur railwayline and capture naya chor.
The souther subsector - gadra road -gadra city-pirani ka pal- bagal - kelnor-bhame ka tar -khimsar.
The attack towards naya chor in central subsector was to be main thrust .
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#blitzofbengal
thread 🧵 on battle of fortress hilli of the 1971 war .
Battle of fortress hilli was an extremely important battle to secure of crucial enemy defensive point and continue penitrating further deep into east pakistan towards bogra town.
Part 1 of thread - first battle of hilli
The battle of hilli took place in 2 phases or 2 battles -the first one was in November 22-24 while the second one was on December 10 . The one fought on November 11 was the most fierce since enemy troops had high morale .This virtually was a stalemate with imdia making some gains