00:00Big news which is coming in at the moment.
00:07A big disclosure has been made by the Indian Air Force Chief, Amarpreet Singh.
00:12The Indian Air Force Chief has said five Pakistani jets were drowned by the Indian Air Force during Operation Sindhu.
00:20Let's listen in to what the Air Chief Marshal said.
00:22I think our, you know, some industry also.
00:27Of course, this is a good way, good platform for our startups to start from.
00:32But they should only use it as a stepping stone.
00:35They can't expect that, you know, just drones and everything else will just disappear or fade away.
00:48Indigenization I've already touched upon.
00:49So, I think indigenization is mandatory.
00:54We can't wish away.
00:56We have to make sure that we have in-house capability and capacity.
01:02I think capacity is very much important.
01:05We can't be storing things for, you know, we can't predict how long the war is going to last.
01:12If we store items, they don't, they have life.
01:16We can't be just, you know, storing and then throwing them away.
01:19So, we have to have a very healthy mix of keeping certain items, you know, available for immediate response
01:26and manufacturing capability, building up, ramping up within that period to a stage where they can support our effort.
01:34So, that is something which has to happen, for which everybody, all of us have to come together.
01:41I think I have spoken enough about it.
01:43So, I will not delve more into this topic.
01:48I thought, since I have some 10 minutes more, so, and I have a mix of, you know, a crowd here.
02:00A lot of people in uniform, a lot of people who are veterans.
02:04And, of course, there are some people from HAL and other people.
02:08So, I will cover certain points, you know, which, you know, we, one point which is meant for, actually, veterans.
02:19It's, it's come to my, you know, I have realized that whenever, whenever somebody writes something about another service,
02:28that other service gets senty about it.
02:33And, same thing is my own, you know, my own seniors message me.
02:38Look, what has he written?
02:40I told you they will say like this.
02:42You know, that kind of thing starts.
02:44So, I, I personally feel, we, we've always been talking about domain specialization.
02:50A4 has been the, you know, it's been out, always been our call.
02:56Even when we talked about Theater Command Channel, we said domain specialization should remain.
03:01So, I feel as veterans also, let's write about our own domain.
03:05I hope.
03:06Joining me on the broadcast, my colleague Shivani Sharma.
03:09Shivani, the opposition, especially the Congress party, had a field day asking questions of the government.
03:14They were time and again asking the government to provide details of Operation Sindhu.
03:18I think what the Air Chief Marshal has said is pretty clear.
03:21It has become crystal clear what happened during Operation Sindhu.
03:25We shot down Pakistani jets.
03:28Aishwarya, absolutely.
03:29Now, it's coming right from the Air Force Chief's mouth where he is addressing and he is giving out specific details.
03:36You know, there were a lot of, there was a lot of politics happening around Operation Sindhu,
03:39the kind of action and the losses we've had because there were a lot of questions that people were asking,
03:46especially the Western media and some political parties inside India too, including Rahul Gandhi about the losses that we were imposed upon in Operation Sindhu.
03:55But now you see Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, he himself is clarifying that we shot down at least.
04:02Remember, he's saying at least because we think that we have already hit more than five.
04:08But yes, at least five kills we've got.
04:10So, this kill can be of the fighter jets or the aircraft, the large aircraft.
04:16Shwani, please just stay on with me.
04:17Let's listen in first to what the Air Chief Marshal has said.
04:20That is Shabazz, their Jacobabad airfield, one of them again, major airfield that was attacked.
04:30And here there's an F-16 hangar, which you can see here.
04:37And here this is the photograph again from open source, from one of their earlier picture of the same hangar.
04:43And here, that hangar, which is one half of the hangar is gone.
04:49And I'm sure there were some aircraft inside which have got damaged there.
04:53So, if I can just sum it up, what, you know, we were able to get there at least two command and control centers
05:01in like Murid and Chaklala that I have shown you one of the pictures.
05:05At least six radars, some of them big, some of them small.
05:09Two SAGW system that is in Nahor and Okara.
05:13Then, of course, runway at Sargoda and Rahimia Khan.
05:18Three hangars that we attacked.
05:19One was, of course, Sukur, the UAV hangar, the Bolari hangar of AEWNC,
05:26and Jacobabad, the F-16 hangar.
05:28And we have indication of at least one AEWNC in that AEWC hangar and a few F-16s, which were under maintenance there.
05:39Apart from these, the SAGW systems, mostly from, I'm talking about fighter aircraft from S-400,
05:50we have at least five fighters confirmed kills and one large aircraft,
05:56which could be either an ELINT aircraft or an AEWNC aircraft,
06:00which was taken on at a distance of about 300 kilometers.
06:03This is actually the largest ever recorded surface-to-air kill that we can talk about.
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