During the coming Fall, the Indian Army will hold a massive war game exercise in winter featuring one of its three potent strike corps in the desert along the western border with Pakistan. The Bhopal-based 21 Corps will work in the Rajasthan desert, aimed at building the capacities of the strike formation in delivering deadly blows to the enemy forces in a short offensive by breaching the hostile army’s defenses and capturing important strategic assets deep inside enemy territory.
The war game will enable the 21 ‘Sudarshan Chakra’ Corps to showcase its firepower through battle tanks and artillery guns, supported by Indian Air Force fighter jets, attack helicopters and transport aircraft, with 20,000 troops involved in the exercise. A report in the Mangalorean newspaper said, “In simple terms, it involves replacing a lumbering elephant with a racehorse.”
What this means:
India wants to make a statement to its neighbors that it stands ready to defend itself. It is also looking to showcase its new hardware each year, hardware from France, Russia, USA , UK and others.
