With an aim to guard 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 said.
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.
