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| Synergy among army, navy air force remarkable : IAF | | |
SHILLONG, OCT 10
Notwithstanding former IAF chief A Y Tipnis' remark that the army was reluctant to tell the government about the presence of Pakistan-backed intruders in Kargil in early 1999, a senior serving officer of the air force today said there was never any occasion for misunderstanding.
"Let me assure you that the synergy among the army, navy and air force is so remarkable that there was never any occasion for misunderstanding," the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Air Command, Air Marshal F H Major said today commenting on Tipnis' article.
Tipnis was the AOC-in-C at EAC headquarters at one time.
Refusing to react to Tipnis' signed article in the latest issue of 'Force' he described it as a personal comment.
Whenever any exercise was planned, it was done jointly, he said. "We have the finest of relations among us and our officers keep visiting their formations while their officers come here."
The former IAF chief had claimed that the army was reluctant to inform the government about the presence of Pakistan-backed intruders in Kargil in early 1999 and did little initially to jointly plan and carry out operations to evict them.
The army top brass had kept saying they could handle the situation in Kargil, but insisted that the Indian Air Force should provide helicopter gunships to support ground troops -- a request Tipnis turned down several times.
Tipnis had felt that helicopters would be vulnerable to missile attacks and the use of air power would lead to an escalation.
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