Source : INDIA TODAY NEWS
Operation Sindoor showcased a calibrated, tri-services response, the government said on Sunday, highlighting how the Army, Air Forces and the Navy worked in tandem, presenting a strong front against terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
While the role of the Air Force and the Army has often been talked about since the launch of the precision strikes on May 7, the government, in a press release, laid emphasis on the Navy’s contribution to the operation as a “composite networked force”.
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The Navy’s Carrier Battle Group (CBG) maintained a powerful air defence shield that prevented hostile aerial incursions, especially from the Makaran coast, a strip in the Balochistan region, between Pakistan and Iran.
The CBG naval fleet is equipped with MiG-29K fighter jets and airborne early warning helicopters.
Besides, naval pilots conducted round-the-clock sorties, and the Navy denied any operational space to Pakistan along the western seaboard.
“The Navy’s ability to establish uncontested control over the seas also validated its anti-missile and anti-aircraft defence capabilities in a complex threat environment,” the government said in a press release.
Operation Sindoor was conceived as a punitive and targeted campaign to dismantle the terror infrastructure across the Line of Control (LoC) and deeper inside Pakistan.
Earlier this month, Vice Admiral AN Pramod said that the Navy was fully capable of striking select targets at sea and on land, including Karachi, when India launched Operation Sindoor against Pakistan.
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The senior Navy official had also said that the forward deployment of the naval force compelled Pakistan to stay in a defensive posture, mostly inside harbours or very close to the coast, which the Indian forces monitored continuously.
The precision strikes under Operation Sindoor were launched after midnight on May 7, in response to the deadly Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians on April 22.
Of the nine terror sites India struck, four were in Pakistan while the rest five were in PoK. The sites included Bahawalpur, the stronghold of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Muridke, the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Taiba. Over 100 terrorists were killed in India’s strikes.
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SOURCE :- TIMES OF INDIA
