The morning of 4 dawn on the day of Operation Sindoor suggests that this struggle has widened, East Pakistan and North-Western India are in all realm. The conflict is now standing at a crossroads. It can either die down, or start climbing an escalatery ladder.
After entering the fog of war and disintegration, we can determine 2 and 3 that day that drone attacks between India and Pakistan were seen. Nevertheless, the remarkable thing is that there was no casualties from India, except in Jammu and Kashmir, apart from the helpless citizens living near the Line of Control, who are experiencing rapid shelling. On Thursday evening, Pakistani drones attempted to attack three Indian military bases – Jammu, Pathankot and Udampur, but were thwarted.
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Another feature is that two air forces continue their operations without crossing the international border, using long-range air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles. And yet, both feel that damaged features and aircraft have been shot.
Why increase
One reason for the intensity of conflict is that 1 day, India did not attack military goals. But although the Indian aircraft launched its missiles from the Indian side, they were attacked by a barrage of air from across the border and a barrage of surface -to -air missiles, which reportedly demolished several aircraft to the Indian side.
Subsequently, on Wednesday night, Pakistan launched its drone attack in India, targeting several air locations and air defense facilities in northwest India. The intentional targeting of military facilities was an increase. It was at this point that India decided that it would have to do what it should have done earlier – knock out the Pakistani air defense system. And it did it very brilliantly, thrown out a headquarters -9 air defense missile site outside Lahore.
According to a state press release on Thursday, India targeted the Pakistani air defense radar and system at several other places in Pakistan. While the release does not say so, it is likely to be done on a large scale through the drone. The release stated that on the night of 7 May, Pakistan “tried to attach many military goals in northern and western India … using drones and missiles”; It listed many cities and towns, many of which are in line with Indian airports. The release said that the Indian integrated counter-UAS grid and the air defense system neutralized them. This may indicate that the attacker crafts were mainly drones. “The debris of the attacks is now being recovered,” said the release said.
Drone on both sides
Apparently, release stated that “Indian response has been with the same intensity in the same domain and Pakistan”. This suggests that the domain is actually an unmanned air system (UAS), and that neither the side bowed to the other. However, the report stated that India used Harpy drones to attack air defense goals.
NDTVQuot YearSaid that the S-400 system was used to neutralize 15 missiles removed in India. It was also noted that Pakistani air defense systems were used after Israeli Harpi and Harope drone. The number of drones employed by both sides does not seem much. There are more than 100 highly capable Haropi and Harrops in India – which are effectively missiles – in its arsenal, and many of them would have been used in Operation Sindoor. There are also some Israel -Mool attack drones in India, and is acquiring the American MQ -9S. On the other hand, more than 100 Chinese-made wings in Pakistan are Long II and CH-4, which can carry a large number of municipality, as well as some Turkish attack drones and a large number of small short-range drones made in Pakistan. Neither the country is really ready for intensive drone war that Russia and Ukrainians are currently fighting.
Beyond the beginning of a drone war in the India-Pakistan borders, there are other issues we need to consider. There is so much wrong information in news and on social media that it is difficult to separate the fact from the story. But facing reality is the best way to learn from this. If the news of being under the Indian aircraft is true, then it is important to know the circumstances.
China factor
Whatever is complicated is a picture that revolves online of a booster of a Chinese P -15 air -to -air missile used by Pakistan, which is the export version of its P -10. As BloombergChinese defense stocks increased by 36% after Operation Sindoor. They were reportedly provoked by the performance of Chinese defense equipment, such as J -10c fighters in clashes.
All this suggests that learning lessons from Operation Sindor are important, and it requires an openness degree. In defense, there is no immunity. Countries are constantly improving their systems and sub-system and look at the hostile environment in which we live, there is always a place for improvement.
After all, our primary anti -China in the region is China, which has invested heavily in its science and technology sector as well as defense. Chinese equipment was usually known for being inferior to Russian people – from which they were copied to a large extent. But those days have gone. J-10C which is Pakistan, for example, is inferior to SU-30MKI which India has. But it is an AESA radar that enables it to track many goals. Pakistan also uses Chinese JF-17s, and both aircraft PL-15 uses long-range missiles (145 km).
Some questions
In short, Operation Sindoor did what he was to attack Pakistan’s terror bases, including the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Tabiba (near Muridke, Lahore) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (Bhavalpur). The operation was strategically stopped and its roll out was completely prepared with the conclusion of Sluice Gates of Baglihar to dry the chainb and set the alarm bells ringing under the river. At the same time, the campaign across the country was timed with Abhay Mock-Drill, which came out on the same day when the news of Operation Sindoor killed the country.
However, the alleged accidents raise questions among the public. India planned to use missiles like Scalp with a 300 km range, and Brahmos, with 500 km range, were they doing very close to the India-Pakistan border?
Another major question is whether the Air Force should first be hit by Pakistani air defense systems and then hit terrorist sites. But this would have spoiled the major message from the Indian side, that they were only responding to the Pahgam terror attack.
Pakistanis have chosen to move forward and now the struggle stands on a cross-road. In which direction it takes it, it is still very difficult.
(The author is a prestigious partner, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi)
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