China reported to have increased stealth fighter deployment in Tibet, close to Indian border

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(TibetanReview.net, Mar20’26) –As India continues to open up trade and investment ties with China, the latter has quietly deployed at least 14 J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighters at an airbase in Tibet located less than 100 miles from India’s Sikkim border. Armed with PL-15 long-range missiles capable of crossing the Line of Actual Control, the deployment is the largest and most significant PLAAF buildup near Indian territory ever recorded, reported 19fortyfive.com Mar 19.

The stealth fighters are deployed at the Shigatse Air Base in Tibet,  one of the world’s highest military airbases, with six of them sheltered under protective tarpaulins and the remaining eight sitting in the open,...

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