Charbatia Air Base
Cuttack, Orissa
20°34'N 85°55'E
The Research and Analysis Wing, India's primary foreign intelligence agency, operates intelligence collection aircraft through the intelligence agency's aviation unit, the Aviation Research Centre (ARC). The aircraft are fitted with state-of-the-art electronic surveillance equipment and long range cameras capable of taking pictures of targets from very high altitudes.
There are four RAW Aviation Research Centre operating bases: at Charbatia in Cuttack; at Chakrata on the Uttar Pradesh-Himachal Pradesh border; Dum Duma near Tinsukia in Assam; and at the Palam domestic airport in Delhi.
The sprawling Charbatia base is located at a secluded place in Cuttack. Though there is a cricket stadium nearby, the base is a high-security zone surrounded by 12-feet-high boundary walls.
Sources and Resources
- SPY PLANES DAMAGED CHANDAN NANDY The Telegraph New Delhi, Nov. 4, 1999
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