New Delhi: Ahead of its transgression in Barahoti area in Uttarakhand, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had conducted a reconnaissance mission using high class aircraft armed with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) which provides broad-area imaging at high resolutions.

According to official sources, TupolovTu 153M aircraft of Chinese PLA had carried out two to three sorties earlier this year in the middle sector falling in the areas of UP, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.