Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat on Monday said it was very difficult to predict if a scenario of a war with Pakistan would emerge ornot but all the defence services were prepared to take on any challenge. The top general, who inducted the Sukhoi-30 MKI squadron here, was responding to a question about any possibility of war emerging between India and Pakistan."All the defence services are tasked to be prepared for any option that may emerge.

It is very difficult to predict a scenario. But, we are always prepared for any task that may be assigned to us," Gen Rawat said.TheChief of Defence Staff (CDS) said his new role was aimed at integrating defence systems and the three services (the Army, the Navy and the Indian Air Force).

It was for this reason the post of CDS was created, he said.

"...we will keep moving towards better integration andjointness," Rawat, who was appointed the country's first Chief of DefenceStaff on December 30 last year, added

On strengthening the Air base here, Air Chief Marshal RakeshKumar Singh Bhadauria said it will undertake the role of the southernpeninsula's air defence.

The Indian Air Force commissioned a squadron of Sukhoi-30MKI at the Air Force Station here, the first such base in south India for thehigh profile fighter jets, seen as a gamechanger in guarding the strategicallyimportant Indian Ocean Region (IOR).

The 'Tigersharks' squadron of Sukhoi 30 MKI jets integratedwith the BrahMos cruise missiles was inducted in the presence of the Air Chiefand top officials.The Su-30 MKI is a state-of-the-art all weather multi-rolefighter aircraft capable of undertaking varied air defence, ground attack andmaritime missions.