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Dum Duma Air Station
Tinsukia, Assam
27°34'N 95°34'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 near Dehra Dun on the Uttar Pradesh-Himachal Pradesh border; Dum Duma near Tinsukia in Assam; and at the Palam domestic airport in Delhi.

Sources and Resources

• SPY PLANES DAMAGED CHANDAN NANDY The Telegraph New Delhi, Nov. 4, 1999