Air operations chief says terror camps decimated, mission objectives achieved

A top IAF officer on Sunday said whatever methods and means the Indian armed forces have chosen during Operation Sindoor had the desired effects on enemy targets and the objective of decimating terror camps has been achievedDirector General of Air Operations IAF Air Marshal AK Bharti during a media briefing here also said that the Indian armed forces responded in a quick and caliberated manner after Indian military installation and civilian areas were targeted following the early May 7 strike on nine terror campsUnder Operation Sindoor the Indian military targeted Markaz Taiba of LashkareTaiba LeT in Muridke Markaz Subhan Allah of JaisheMohammad JeM in Bahawalpur Hizbul Mujahideens Mehmoona Joya Facility in Sialkot and the LeTs base in Markaz Ahle Hadith in Barnala and its camp in Muzaffarabads Shawai Nalla military officials saidWe carefully selected the targets and out of the nine selected targets the target systems that were given to the IAF were the notorious training camps at Bahawalpur and Muridke he said Air Marshal Bharti said while aerial intrusions were being done by drones and other aerial assets sent by Pakistan it was Our robust AD air defence posture that largely prevented them from coming inOn May 7 we were saturated with raid of UAVs and small drones and these came in waves in our civilian areas over our military installations and all of these were successfully intercepted few of them did manage to land there was much damage they did he said As they had targeted our military installation and civilian areas we had to respondOur response was quick and caliberated we struck their radar installations at Lahore and close to Gujranwala We wanted to indicate that we are ready and yet we do not want to escalate our fight was with the terrorists and not the Pakistani military infrastructure the Director General of Air Operations saidOperation Sindoor was launched early May 7 to destroy nine terror infrastructures in Pakistan and PakistanoccupiedKashmir in retaliation to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack All subsequent retaliations to Pakistani offensives were carried out under this operation He said Pakistan had done an insensitive act by allowing operation of civilian airliners during these actionsWe had to exercise extreme caution even at the cost of some tactical disadvantage to ensure there is no damage to any of the civilian aircraft Air Marshal Bharti said Asked about reports in the foreign media of losses of Indian fighter jets Air Marshal Bharati said We are in a combat scenario and losses are part of combatAll I can say is that we have achieved our objectives that we selected and all our pilots are back home he said The Director General of Air Operations said whatever methods and whatever means we have chosen it had the desired effects on the enemy targets He said to start with our aim was not to inflict casualty but in case there have been it is for them to count Our job is to hit the target not to count the body bagsThe IAF officer said its response was directed only at military installations avoiding civilian and collateral damage Have we achieved our objectives of decimating the terror camps and the answer is a thumping yes and the results are for the whole world to see He added We have the capability to target every system at these bases and more However it was only a measured response to instill good wisdom in our adversary to refrain from further escalationThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoeveratOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params