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While India continues to downplay reports of Chinese incursions across the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Indian Air Force is set to deploy upgraded Russian built MiG 29 combat aircraft close to the borders. All three squadrons of MiG 29 aircraft, around 62 fighters, are to be based at Adampur in Punjab, the country’s second largest IAF base. It is around one hundred kilometers from the Indo-Pakistan border and less than 250 km. from the Chinese border on the eastern side. At present, the ...