Tensions Escalate: India Responds to Attack on Military Bases with Strikes in Arabian Sea
Pakistan has launched a new attack on India's military establishments in the evening of Thursday, targeting regions in Jammu as well Kashmir, Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat.
Tensions Escalate: India Responds to Attack on Military Bases with Strikes in Arabian Sea
The offensive also included airstrikes, artillery fire, as well as kamikaze drone strikes, mostly targeted at military facilities. India responded with a well-planned but firm counterattack, capturing any drones and missiles coming in with its air defense systems.
"Military stations in Jammu, Pathankot & Udhampur were sprayed by Pakistani drones and missiles near the International Border in J&K today. The threats were quickly squelched by using non-kinetic and kinetic weapons," the Ministry of Defence stated..
Blackouts were in place across a variety of frontier regions to protect and the civilian lives were interrupted, including the suspension of an IPL match in Dharamshala.
As a response to Pakistan's attempts at drone and missile attacks in Indian territory in response, India's Indian Navy has initiated targeted operations in the Arabian Sea, NDTV has revealed. The operation began at around 6:00 am on Friday with a focus on a variety of Pakistani targets.
The shootdown took place amid Pakistan's failure to hit Jammu by using drones and missiles. The F-16 Supersonic, which is a manufactured by the US military aircraft, as well as one of the majorstays of Pakistan's fleet of aircraft, was used before in the post-Balakot escalation of 2019.
27 airports in northern, western and central India comprising Srinagar, Jammu, Amritsar among others, have been closed for commercial flights until 5:29 am on Saturday May 10, causing major disruptions to air traffic. Indian airlines cancelled flights on Thursday, which is about 3 percent of the scheduled flights of the country. Pakistan airlines cancelled 147 flights, which is 17 percent of their schedules for the day.
US Vice-President JD Vance declared his opinion that the current dispute in the region between India as well as Pakistan has become " fundamentally none of our concern," while emphasising that the US will only be involved through diplomatic channels to facilitate an end to the violence.
