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A video drawback of the IAF's R-Day video showing an detonation astatine Pakistan's atomic tract Kirana Hills past May
New Delhi: Did the Indian Air Force onslaught Kirana Hills during Operation Sindoor? The question, which had circulated successful subject and governmental circles during the cognition past year, has returned aft the aerial unit enactment retired a video connected Republic Day showing the Pakistan’s atomic basal successful Sargodha getting hit, accompanied by footage of Indian jets — Rafale, Sukhoi, Jaguar and Tejas — and the words “the enforcers of peace”.During a property briefing connected the cognition past year, Air Marshal A K Bharti, past Director General of Air Operations, had said India had not struck Kirana Hills. Asked astir the latest video posted connected its authoritative X account, IAF maintained this stand. “We inactive basal by the authoritative version,” IAF spokesperson Wing Commander Jaideep Singh told TOI, without elaborating.The IAF video besides shows images of Nur Khan basal and different Pakistani subject assets being deed during Operation Sindoor, with a Swiss study precocious saying the Indian strikes forced Pakistan into appealing for peace.With the inheritance euphony of ‘Mahisasura Mardini’, IAF, successful the R-Day video, displayed the Sindoor enactment of combatant jets, saying, “I (fighter jet) basal arsenic the unbreakable guarantor of peace. Should malevolent eyes situation and effort to interruption this tranquillity, I emergence arsenic the fierce enforcer of peace. Infallible, Impervious, Precise.”There was a batch of speculation past twelvemonth connected whether India had struck Kirana Hills, arsenic it is believed to beryllium 1 of the storehouses of Pakistan’s atomic warheads.
Responding to a media query connected May 12, 2025, amid the conflict, Air Marshal Bharti had past said with a smile, “We person not deed Kirana Hills, immoderate is there. I did not little successful my briefing yesterday.”TOI had reported past twelvemonth that caller imagery from Google Earth, captured successful June, appeared to bespeak that a rocket had so deed the strategically-sensitive atomic tract successful Pakistan. The images had been analysed and shared by outer imagery adept and geo-intelligence researcher Damien Symon connected X.The video released connected R-Day besides showed uncommon images of IAF’s ace precocious weaponry loaded connected its precocious combatant jets. It showed the hardpoint of a Rafale equipped with 2 Meteor missiles, silencing Pakistani and occidental critics who had said India did not get the beyond-visual-range rocket from France on with the bundle of 36 Rafale jets, and therefore, did not usage the rocket successful the Pakistan aerial strikes.
The video besides showed Indian-made air-to-air missile, Astra, loaded onto a Sukhoi fighter; a BrahMos cruise rocket connected different Sukhoi and short-range air-to-air rocket ASRAAM loaded onto a Jaguar heavy penetration onslaught aircraft. Hammer and a precision onslaught missile, Rampage, were besides seen connected different Rafale.The video seems to show the array of IAF’s precocious rocket arsenal utilized to onslaught panic targets during the Balakot surgical strikes and Pakistan bases during past year’s Operation Sindoor.
