New Delhi:
Indian Army shared a compilation video today Operation vermilion In a special briefing of top defense officers. The video titled ‘disturb the enemy in the sky’, which included footage of several army, Navy and Air Force operations. A portion of the video still displayed a collage of the military equipment appearing as the rubble of the military equipment. The collage captioned, “Pakistani Mirage … shattered”.
It reported that the Indian armed forces destroyed a Pakistani Mirage fighter jet during the ongoing tension. However, the Indian Air Force has not given any official confirmation.
In a high-level press briefing in New Delhi, senior commanders of the Indian Army, Air Force and Navy provided a comprehensive account of Operation Sindoor, on May 7 on 7 April, on 22 April, was started in vengeance for a deadly terrorist attack in Pahgam, Jammu and Kashmir. Indian intelligence services have linked the attack to the elements of Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tabiba and Pakistan’s military establishment.
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The briefing was jointly led by the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) Lieutenant General Rajiv Gai, Director General of Director General of Director General Air Vice Marshal Ak Bharti, and Director General of Navy Operations Vice Admiral, Director General of Vice Admiral a Pramod.
“Our fighting system stood on the test of time and took them to the head. Another highlight has been a great performance of the indigenous air defense system, the sky system. Conducting the atmosphere simultaneously and powerful has become possible only due to budgetary and policy support from the Government of India in the last decade,” Air Vice Marshal Ak Bharti said.
Operation Sindoor lasted for about 25 minutes and was performed in the early hours of May 7. This included attacks on nine confirmed terrorist sites, four in mainland Pakistan and five in Pakistan -occupied Kashmir. According to Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, the operation neutralized more than 100 terrorists and destroyed many facilities related to Lashkar-e-Tabiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen.
Following the Indian attacks, Pakistan launched a wave of drone and missile attacks targeting Indian military facilities and border towns in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Rajasthan. These attacks triggers air raid sirens and blackouts in several cities including Chandigarh, Jaisalmer and Pathankot.
India reported limited losses to the installations in Udhampur, Adampur, Pathankot and Bhuj. Civil injuries were reported in Ferozepur, Punjab, while a government employee, a drone in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, was killed in a drone strike.
Air Vice Marshal Ak Bharti said, “Many waves of drone and unmanned fighter air vehicles employed by Pakistan were also thwarted by indigenously developed soft and hard kilt counter-UAS systems and well-trained Indian air defense personnel.”
