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2020-05-29 India-Pakistan
Not far from the LAC, satellite picks up Chinese armour, artillery
[Indian Express] Highly placed sources told The Indian Express that a detailed analysis of satellite images has shown extensive deployment of towed artillery and mechanised elements on the Chinese side, bringing Indian deployments within striking distance.

As Delhi and Beijing turn to their working mechanism at the level of diplomats to reduce military tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, there’s evidence of the Chinese having deployed towed artillery and mechanised elements on their side of the LAC opposite the Galwan valley.

Highly placed sources told The Indian Express that a detailed analysis of satellite images has shown extensive deployment of towed artillery and mechanised elements on the Chinese side, bringing Indian deployments within striking distance. # id) ?>
Posted by Fred 2020-05-29 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1806 views ]  Top
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1 Just creating an external threat for the rubes and rubettes back home. It’s what dictators do.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-05-29 00:37||   2020-05-29 00:37|| Front Page Top

2 What is going on?
Posted by Thorong Grundy1520 2020-05-29 01:19||   2020-05-29 01:19|| Front Page Top

3 News and media diversion. Events in Hong Kong are the real news.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-29 01:26||   2020-05-29 01:26|| Front Page Top

4 Maybe. I wouldn't be surprised is a 2 front war was in the works.

Weaken the world with a virus attack then strike.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-29 03:49||   2020-05-29 03:49|| Front Page Top

5 In the spring of 1914 nobody in Europe wanted or expected a war.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-29 04:04||   2020-05-29 04:04|| Front Page Top

6 Always need to be worried when you have a wounded pig in the underbrush.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-29 05:24||   2020-05-29 05:24|| Front Page Top

7 I assume that our observational assets can see anything that there is to see.

Our analytical assets on the other hand.........


Sounds like the opening of Clancy's "Bean and Dragon".
Posted by AlanC 2020-05-29 06:44||   2020-05-29 06:44|| Front Page Top

8 Always need to be worried when you have a wounded pig in the underbrush.

...and have a handy large-bore sidearm.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-29 10:39||   2020-05-29 10:39|| Front Page Top

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