India's Rafale fighter jets come in India tomorrow.
The rafale fighter jets will come in India tomorrow, they arrive at a time when India and chains are locked in an intense standoff. Along the line of actual control in Ladakh so will rafales be deployed to debtor chains and are they really superior to the Chinese 20s.
With India's first rafales inbound India's public has one question above all. The rafales play a role in Ladakh. The rafales will be based at Haryana's Ambala, which is 430 kilometres from Ladakh. This may appear like a lot but it's a very short distance in supersonic fast fighter jet terms and can be covered very quickly.
More importantly, the rafales range and it's combat radius is staggering 1700 kilometres. This means the aircraft and its weapons are a direct threat to all zones covered by those circles. Which very much includes eastern Ladakh Chinese-controlled Aksai, chin, Tibet, Pakistan, and P.O.K.
One of India's specific enhancements on the rafale is a modification of the fighter's twin jet engines allowing them to operate at extremely cold temperatures of the high altitude airbases like a lane. The Indian's air force has clearly stated that its pilots are fully operational on the rafale and it's advanced weapon systems.
While jets can always be deployed where and where the necessary specific mission familiarization has actually already begun. Since June Indian pilot trainees in France have specifically been flying simulated combat profiles mirroring missions over Ladakh.