By NNN-PTI
Jammu : With an aim to guarding the inhospitable terrain and snow-carpeted barren mountain chains bordering Pakistan, Army has decided to purchase latest snow mobiles to ensure the mobility and intensified patrolling along the Indo-Pak border in Ladakh frontier region.
“Latest all-featured snow mobiles are being purchased soon for their use in border patrolling and for mobility of troops along Indo-Pak border in Siachen-Kargil sector of Ladakh Region,” defence sources told PTI.
In the first phase, 25 snow mobiles will be purchased by the Northern Command Headquarters (NCH) at Udhampur, the sources said, adding NCH has already floated global tenders regarding this last month.
The specification of the snow mobiles have been put as 4 stroke, 973 cc petrol engine with power backup and 4 ventilated disc brakes.
Over 30 snow mobiles were inducted into Kargil-Siachen sector soon after Kargil war to give better mobility to the troops patrolling the Indo-Pak border, the sources said.
Now these snowmobiles have almost completed their effective utility period, they said, adding that was the reason why snow scooters were required.
“We want that jawans (soldiers) be provided the latest snow mobiles to give them reach in the snow covered mountainous turf in the sector. This will save us from causalities due to weather conditions and give us battle front superiority,” they said.
Unlike the old snow scooters, the new ones will be lighter in weight, the sources added.