Smaland
09-30-2010, 08:07 PM
Official sources said India was making preparations to deploy its strategic Agni II intermediate-range ballistic missiles and Prithvi III surface-to-surface ballistic missiles to the Chinese border.
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These measures were planned in response to China moving its advanced, longer-range CSS-5 missiles to the Tibet region and developing contingency plans to shift airborne forces there at short notice.
The neighbours fought a bitter war in 1962 – in which India came off worse – over their unresolved border dispute.
Link to article (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0910/1224278568444.html)
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These measures were planned in response to China moving its advanced, longer-range CSS-5 missiles to the Tibet region and developing contingency plans to shift airborne forces there at short notice.
The neighbours fought a bitter war in 1962 – in which India came off worse – over their unresolved border dispute.
Link to article (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0910/1224278568444.html)