00:00Few lessons that I thought I must flag as far as Operation Sindhu is concerned.
00:04Firstly, one border, two adversaries. So we saw Pakistan one side, but adversaries were two,
00:11and if I would say actually four or three actually. So Pakistan was the front face.
00:17We had China providing all possible support. And it's no surprise because if you were to look at
00:23statistics, in the last five years, 81 percent of the military hardware that Pakistan is getting
00:30is all Chinese, 81 percent of that. So it's no surprise. And China, of course, the good old
00:39victim killed by a borrowed knife, 36 stratagems that China talks about, killed by a borrowed knife.
00:46So he would rather use the neighbor to cause pain than getting involved in the mud slinging
00:52a match on the northern border. So that is what he's seen. And another thing that China perhaps
00:58has seen is that he's able to test his weapons against, say, various other weapon system that
01:05are there. It's like a live lab which is available to him. So that is what is something we have to
01:12be very, very cognizant about. Again, Turkey also played a very important role in providing
01:19the type of support that was there. Barekhtar, of course, he's been giving from before. We saw
01:26numerous other drones also coming in, landing in the face of war during the war, along with trained
01:35sort of individuals who were there.
01:38The next important lesson is the importance of C4 ISR and civil military fusion. There is a lot to be
01:47done as far as this domain is concerned. When the DGMO level talks were going on, Pakistan actually was
01:57mentioning that we know that your such and such important sort of vector is primed and it is ready
02:07for action. I would request you to perhaps pull it back. So he was getting live inputs as far as from
02:13China. So that is one place we really need to move fast and take appropriate action. I talked about
02:22electronic warfare and need for robust air defense system is something, again, our population centers
02:29also need to be protected. Of course, as far as the other, we do not have the luxury like, you know,
02:36we have been seeing the way Israel, they have the Iron Dome and a number of other air defense features
02:43that they have. We do not have a luxury because our country is vast. So, and such things cost a lot of money.
02:50So we need to again look at innovative solutions.
02:54Another lesson, I think, from Operation Sindur was need for a secure supply chain. So we found, Mr. Ashok again talked about that
03:06the pain because an equipment was not inducted on time. He was looking at it from the industry point of view, but I was looking at it from a military perspective that an equipment which was supposed to get in by say January or last October, November was not available to us.
03:29And in the face and when on 22nd of the previous month, that is April, when all this happened and when I actually addressed, I don't know, some of you may be there, when I addressed the drone manufacturers that how many of you can, you know, provide the equipment that you're supposed to in the stipulated time.
03:48A lot of hands went up, but when again, I called them after one week, nothing came by. The reason is because our supply chains, we are still dependent on a lot of things from outside.
04:00Had all those equipment been made available, the story may have been a little different, right? So it is both sides. We need to, we need to look at that.
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