The Indian media has alleged that the Pakistani Army downloaded the GPS coordinates of all helipads from the seized Indian Army helicopter. Indian media quoted top government sources as saying that the incident was being probed at a high level as the GPS data of the helicopter was found wiped out along with nicknames and code signs of all the helipads in the 14 Corps area. Leh-based 14 Corps is responsible for defence of Kargil-Leh, Siachen Glacier and Line of Actual Control (LAC) with Tibet.
“We are treating the incident with utmost concern as coordinates of all helipads in the 14 Corps including Siachen Glacier and LAC are now with the Pakistan Army with code signs and nicknames,” said a senior official. Dismissing media reports, India’s State Minister for Defence Pallam Raju said, “There was no secret information on that helicopter. “It contained regular information that is needed for a flying machine. So I don’t think that has happened.”
They should be glad that everything was returned to them in one peice
u should be glad ur country is in one piece
This is nothing but sensational journalism.
1. If one country gets their hands on another country's defense equipment, strip searching them would be a fair game and within the protocol. US/Japan did it with MIG-25. China and Pakistan did it with US cruise missile fired over Afghanistan which came down unexploded.
2. If Pakistan got the coordinates of India's LOC helipads or India got Pakistan's, how can that be a big deal? Their intelligence agencies can get these at anytime without even lifting a single finger if you believe in modern technologies. There are number of different ways to do it (from radar and radio signal intelligence to satellite imagery). Helipads are not briefcases that can be tucked under your bed.
3. If a foreign intelligence took data, they would try to hide that information. So, in this case (as reported) Pakistan authority would never erase the data from the instrument. Because that would give away the knowledge of what they did.
Stupid Hindustan Times tried to make a sensational news out of it quoting "government sources" and "senior official". And, here is what they did not mention (call it those idiots' lack of source):
"There is no secret information in any helicopter. It is regular information that is needed for any machine. So I do not think that is the case," Minister of State for Defence M.M. Pallam Raju said (Source: India Today).
India today also reports: "Sources in the ministry of defence told Headlines Today that the Pakistan Army did strip-search the helicopter, as is the norm for such violations. such choppers do not have its own navigation system and pilots use commercially available hand-held global positioning system (GPS) devices.
Data in the GPS is at no stage a dictionary of helipads and air bases and hence no secrets could be compromised. They said pilots usually access the flight path, destination and a few helipads or bases in the vicinity in case of bad weather or requirement of alternative landing sites through their handheld GPS systems."
(http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/pakistan-army-data-stolen-indian-army-cheetah-chopper/1/157476.html).
Somebody said rightly, why they will wipe out the data and provide suspicion, now looking from another angle it could be yhe indian crew who wiped out the data as a standard procedure in such circumstances. so cheer up dear indian friends and look forward to bettr times. the courteous refuelled return should be appreciated for normalization of relations and neutralization of this unfriendly and useless zone. happy diwali to all indians
the reason of wiping out may be, that the technicians or the agents dont no how to handle the device……. they may have mistakenly delated the data after taking it……
Time was very short then, thats for sure…..
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