Breaking His Silence : After Nearly Three Months, IAS Chief Reveals Bringing Down 6 Pakistan Jets During Operation Sindoor

Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh,  said that the Indian Armed Forces had destroyed at least five Pakistani fighter aircraft and one large aircraft during Operation Sindoor.

The Air Chief revealed information about India’s damage to Pakistan’s defence capabilities while addressing an event at the Hal Management Academy in Bengaluru reported PTI .

It took nearly three months for the  IAF to reveal the details. US President  Donald Trump had earlier indicted 5-6 jets were dwoned during th India – Pak war but did not name from which country the jets downed belonged to.

“We have at least five fighters confirmed kills and one large aircraft, which could be either an ELINT aircraft or an AEW &C aircraft, which was taken on at a distance of about 300 kilometres. This is actually the largest ever recorded surface-to-air kill that we can talk about,” Air Chief Marshal AP Singh said.

Listing other damages on Pakistan’s defence capabilities, the Air Chief said, “We were able to get at least two command and control centres, like Murid and Chaklala. At least six radars, some of them big, some of them small. Two SAGW systems that is in Lahore and Okara. We attacked three hangars. One was the Sukkur UAV hangar, the Bholari hangar and the Jacobabad F-16 hangar. We have an indication of at least one AEW&C in that AEW&C hangar and a few F-16s, which were under maintenance there.”

The Air chief said that it was a high-tech war.

“In 80 to 90 hours of war, we were able to achieve so much damage that it was clear to them that if they continue, they are going to pay for it more and more. So they came forward and sent a message to our DGMO that they wanted to talk. This was accepted on our side…,” he said.