Indian Army DGMO issues BIG statement on Operation Sindoor: ‘Pakistani air assets…’

Indian Army DGMO Lt. Rajiv Ghai.

Director General of Military Operations Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai said on Tuesday that Pakistan’s efforts to respond to Operation Sindoor were a “dismal failure”, while the Indian Army also destroyed 11 Pakistani air bases, including three hangars and four radars. The Indian Army also destroyed 1 C-130 class aircraft, an Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft and at least four to five fighter jets, the DGMO said in his speech at the United Nations Troop Contributing Countries (UNTCC) Chiefs’ Meeting in New Delhi. The army official said that the launch of Pakistani drones took place after the DGMOs of both sides met each other. “We know for certain that there was a C-130 class aircraft and an AEW, four to five fighter jets and of course assets destroyed in the air, and we now know that the world’s longest ever surface-to-air kill was carried out at a distance of more than 300 kilometers and of course five high-tech fighter jets. I think the impunity with which these attacks were carried out is what is important,” the Lieutenant General said on Tuesday. he said.

Talking about the ultimate failure of Pakistan’s efforts to launch an offensive post-Operation Sindoor, Lt. Ghai credited India’s robust air defense system that enabled it to shoot down drones and thwart Pakistan’s incursion. “Some of these engagements, the reprisals, the rockets, the drones, I think the whole thing was a dismal failure, and largely the use of very strong integrated air defenses, where we could deploy various and classes of drones, in an attempt to cause loss of life and damage to people and material, but the whole thing was a dismal failure,” he said. After Pakistan launched unmanned aerial vehicles to the Indian side, the Indian side also took action and the Air Force launched an operation on the night of May 8 and May 9. “This of course let you know that the Indian Air Force mobilized precision strikes on the nights of May 9 and 10. We have now hit 11 of their air bases and I think the Air Chief mentioned this recently. If you see eight air bases, three, three hangars and four radars were damaged. Pakistan’s air assets were on the ground,” he said.

The DGMO announced that the Indian Navy has also sailed into the Arabian sea and is waiting to give a response if the Pakistani side decides to go further. “The Indian Navy was also on a lot of action, ladies and gentlemen, and this is probably a not very well known fact, but the Navy had sailed into the Arabian Sea and they were in very good shape when the DGMO spoke now and if the enemy had decided to go further, it could have been disastrous for them, not just from the sea but from other dimensions as well,” he said. India carried out precision strikes on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and PoJK in May this year in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. The Indian Armed Forces effectively repelled Pakistan’s subsequent aggression and struck its air bases. Pakistan’s DGMO called its Indian counterpart and the two countries agreed to cease hostilities.

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