JK News Today
Jammu,May 24: Pakistan suffered heavier losses to its airforce than reported earlier.
More details have emerged about India’s precision strikes on Pakistani military installations on the intervening night of May 10, which forced Islamabad to urgently seek US intervention for a ceasefire pact.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) targeted four air bases, took out an airborne early warning system and neutralised several air defences of the Pakistani forces with precision strikes, forcing Islamabad to seek a truce, Hindustan Times has reported.
The paper also reported that the Indian Navy looked ready to target Karachi Naval Port on May 10 morning with its armada moving 260 miles off Makaran Coast.
SCALP and BrahMos missiles used
On May 10, the IAF struck four Pakistani bases. Rafale-launched SCALP missiles and SU-30 MKI-launched Brahmos missiles hit the northern air command-control network at Nur Khan airbase in Chaklala.
Air strikes were also carried out at Jacobabad and Bholari air bases.
AWACS destroyed
India reportedly used its S-400 air defence system in Adampur to destroy a Pakistani SAAB-2000 airborne early warning system .
Notably, the target was flying 315 kilometres deep into Pakistan. The S-400 took it out easily as Pakistan’s air defence systems had already been paralysed.
