The 500 km-range Brahmos missile , 800 km-range Nirbhay cruise missiles along side Akash SAM with a capability to focus on aerial threats 40 km away are at the core of India’s stand-off weapon deterrence to People’s Liberation Army (PLA) missile deployment in Xinjiang and Tibet regions.
While the PLA’s western theatre command has deployed stand-off weapons up to 2,000 km range and long-range SAMs in Tibet and Xinjiang after the Ladakh stand-off started, people conversant in the matter told Hindustan Times that the supersonic Brahmos, subsonic Nirbhay also as Akash are deployed to counter them by India within the worst-case scenario. The Chinese deployment isn't limited to occupied Aksai Chin but is found thorough positions from Kashgar, Hotan, Lhasa and Nyingchi along the three ,488 km Line of Actual Control (LAC).
India’s main stay within the stand-off weapons is that the Brahmos air-to-air and air-to-surface aircraft with its 300 kilogramme warhead which may lookout of airstrips in Tibet and Xinjiang, or a warship in Indian Ocean .
The Brahmos missile has been deployed in sufficient numbers within the Ladakh sector with the choice to deliver the stand-off weapon from a Su-30 MKI fighter. Besides, the Brahmos are often wont to create choke points within the Indian Ocean using the Car Nicobar air station in India’s island territories. The IAF’s Car Nicobar air station is that the advanced landing ground for SU-30 MKI’s which may use air-to-air refuellers to guard against any PLA warship threat coming from the Strait of Malacca to Sunda Strait across Indonesia, a senior government official said.
While a limited number of Nirbhay subsonic missiles are produced and deployed, the stand-off weapon features a range which will reach up to 1,000 km, and has both sea skimming and loitering capability. this suggests that the missile is capable of flying between 100 metres to four km from ground and devour the target before engaging it. The Nirbhay missile has only a surface-to-surface version.
The third stand-off weapon employed by Indian military is that the Akash SAM, which has also been deployed in sufficient numbers to counter any PLA aircraft intrusion across the LAC in Ladakh sector. The PLA Air Force fighter activity in occupied Aksai Chin continues albeit at a reduced level. However, there's concern over PLA air activity across the Daulet Beg Oldi sector near Karakoram pass.
The Akash missile with its three-dimensional Rajendra, a passive electronically scanned array radar that has the capacity to trace 64 targets at a time and simultaneously engage 12 of them. The missile has the capacity to interact all aerial targets including fighter planes, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
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