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Balakot Air Strike: Mission to bomb JeM terror camps was codenamed Operation Bandar , says ex-IAF chief Operation Bandar was planned under utmost secrecy and most of the details were only known to the top planners, defence sources have revealed
BusinessToday.In | February 26, 2021 | Updated 11:55 IST
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Indian Air Force s (IAF) mission to bomb a terrorist hideout in Balakot, Pakistan, was codenamed Operation Bandar . It s been two years since IAF conducted the Balakot Air Strike in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on February 14, 2019, to avenge the deadly Pulwama attack that claimed the lives of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Jammu and Kashmir. Operation Bandar was planned under utmost secrecy and most of the details were only known to the top planners, defence sources have revealed. The operation was so secret that the then Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa had made a classified telephonic call to Ajit Doval, National Security Adviser, ab
Following a thumbs up from PM Modi, 12 Mirage 2000 fighter jets of the IAF, along with some support from Sukhio Su-30 MKIs, carried out the attack in the heart of Pakistan and destroyed the JeM camp there.
Flying in three separate formations, the Mirage 2000s and Su-30s dropped Israeli-made Spice 2000 bombs on the terror facility in Balakot without getting detected by the Pakistani radars.
The attack helped India show its military capabilities and gave a clear message to Pakistan that New Delhi ghus kar maarenge (will kill you in your house). Basically, it s a paradigm shift in the way we conduct our operations. The other side never believed that we could carry out a strike inside Pakistan to take out a terror training camp that we successfully carried out, said ACM Dhanoa while speaking to news agency ANI last year.