Indian Aerospace Command To Operate Military Satellites

摘要

The importance of satellite information to the success of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq has strengthened India's resolve to set up an Aerospace Command its Air Force could use to operate dedicated military satellites, a service official said. India began planning a constellation of high-resolution satellites for tactical military applications after an inquiry into the country's failure to detect the May 1999 Pakistani intrusion in the Kargil area of Kashmir. The result of that inquiry was a recommendation to improve satellite intelligence-gathering. The recommendation was contained in a 2000 report by K. Subrahmanyam, who was a member of the national security council in the previous National Democratic Alliance government.