Op Sindoor brought enemy to knees, most decisive since 1971: Air Force chief

India Today

Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh on Thursday praised Operation Sindoor as the year’s most significant military engagement, highlighting India’s long-range air defence capabilities likely powered by the S-400 system that achieved a kill over 300 km inside enemy territory.

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00:00The big remark that was made by Indian Air Force Chief on Operation Sindhuur and its success

00:04where he said that Operation Sindhuur was the most significant operation of the year

00:09after the Pehalkam attack. Let's listen in.

00:12Minimal collateral, you know, trying our best not to have any casualties from civilian side

00:19and we were able to bring them to their knees in actually speaking one night of intensive operations.

00:30And, you know, the ability of Air Force to be able to deliver this catastrophic firepower

00:41and, you know, it has been shown, I think, first time after 1971.

00:47This is something that a nation has not seen in the recent past.

00:51And our own motto this year, you know, that has been

00:55Achuk, Abhede, even Satik, has been proven in this operation, if I can say.

01:02Achuk, you know, which has never been hurt from its mission,

01:06which is impervious, which has never been hurt.

01:11And Satik, the precision which was shown in our strikes, which, which, which has been proven in open source,

01:19the satellite images are showing the kind of hits that we were able to achieve.

01:24Achuk, Achuk, Abhede, and Satik, we have actually approved this operation sandour.

01:31And this was not only an Indian Air Force achievement.

01:39The operation sandour has a lot of meaning that we have three services have been planning together,

01:46and executed together, and has been executed to this mission.

01:54So, this is a very big thing that happened in the first time, right from planning stage,

02:01the three services have been done together.

02:06I would like to say one thing, that in this mission,

02:13you people have, you and your teammates have.

02:16The media has played a very big role,

02:18because, you know, the fog of war, which we said before,

02:23lack of information,

02:25what is happening, what is happening, what is happening,

02:27that has changed a little bit.

02:30Today, the prethora of misinformation is causing fog of war.

02:34There are four ways of misinformation.

02:36So, our media has handled it very well.

02:41There are many places, many channels, many media personnel have clarified it.

02:46The ones that were missing, the ones that were missing,

02:48the ones that were missing, the ones that were missing,

02:49the ones that were missing,

02:50and I can say that the force was missing from the ground.

02:56And in this matter, it is very important that,

03:00our soldiers are working in the field,

03:04that do not affect all these misinformation.

03:07The general public is the moral of the general public.

03:10The moral of that is not down.

03:11So, what you have provided, what you have provided,

03:14what you have provided,

03:15what you have provided,

03:16is very important.

03:17And I would like to thank all of you,

03:19for all of you and your teammates.

03:21Maybe, one or two channels,

03:24that were saying something else,

03:26or something else,

03:27that were going on the field.

03:29Generally, the majority was totally in sync with what was happening,

03:34and in sync with the fighting for one nation,

03:37which is very, very commendable.

03:41As far as other than sindoor, other than operations,

03:46what is concerned is, of course,

03:48we have been consistently demonstrating our commitment towards humanitarian aid,

03:54in disaster relief operations,

03:57or any time aid to civil authorities that is required.

04:00But, this year, there are many occasions,

04:03when people had to do this work,

04:05like Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Jammu Kashmir,

04:10and whether it was Assam's coal mine collapse,

04:16or Salam's tunnel rescue,

04:20or avalanche in Mana,

04:22Manipur landslide,

04:24or floods in various states,

04:26like Assam, Shikkim, Himachal Pradesh.

04:29In all areas,

04:31our soldiers, our soldiers,

04:34our gurus,

04:35along with other agencies,

04:37like Army, Navy, NDRF,

04:39and all of them,

04:41and worked with them.

04:44In the operation of Sindhu,

04:46Indian Air Force,

04:47which has been evacuated from the international crisis zone,

04:52airlifting a lot of personnel,

04:55and of Indian origin back to India.

04:58Also, during various international crises,

05:02like Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Kenya,

05:06there are also our aircraft,

05:08our personnel,

05:10or materials,

05:12or other relief operations equipment,

05:16or the NDRF teams deployed.

05:19So, the compassion, speed, and reliability

05:22with which Indian Air Force has delivered hope,

05:25you know, under these hazardous conditions,

05:27it embodies the ideal,

05:29you know, highest ideals of service before self.

05:33Also,

05:35which has been released for a year,

05:37we have done a lot of other countries with bilateral and multilateral exercises.

05:44You know, these exercises become very important,

05:46because through them,

05:48we can reach their own thoughts,

05:52we can grant their thoughts,

05:54we can learn new things,

05:55we can learn new things,

05:56we can learn new things,

05:57and the most important thing is,

05:58that you have become a rapper in the international forum,

06:01it is very important.

06:02So,

06:04whatever the exercises have done,

06:06I can count a few countries,

06:10like UAE,

06:12Egypt,

06:13Greece,

06:14France,

06:15Singapore,

06:16last year,

06:17we have exercised,

06:18some of the pilots,

06:19some of the multilateral,

06:20and everywhere,

06:21wherever I have,

06:23their senior officers,

06:25or chiefs,

06:26or any of the high officials,

06:29I have got the opportunity to meet with high officials.

06:31It is very hard,

06:32that all of the areas of our teams,

06:34who are going here,

06:35have been very difficult.

06:37Some of the people have called me,

06:40that the way our teams have conducted,

06:42the way they have been able to orchestrate things,

06:45they are very happy,

06:47and they would like to continue this cooperation.

06:50So,

06:51that has been a good success,

06:53in the past one year.

06:55And,

06:56if I talk about the space domain,

06:59then,

07:00this year,

07:01it is going to be written for us,

07:03because,

07:06in the Axiom 4 mission,

07:08we have a pilot,

07:11group captain,

07:13and,

07:15thank you very much,

07:16we have seen it.

07:18We have seen it.

07:19Besides,

07:20these four Gagan knots,

07:23selection,

07:24training,

07:25curriculum,

07:26all of our work,

07:28and,

07:29the human in space,

07:30program,

07:31and,

07:32the capsule,

07:33we have done it for the drop test,

07:34and,

07:35the drop test,

07:36we have done it for the drop test,

07:37that has been done through the drop test,

07:38that was successful.

07:39So,

07:40now,

07:41we have,

07:42Rakesh Sharma,

07:43and along with that,

07:44now,

07:56we have,

07:57Shubhan Shushukla,

07:58who has joined the gang,

07:59where,

08:00people who have been in space,

08:01and,

08:02both of them happen to be,

08:03you know,

08:04Air Force people.

08:05So,

08:06I am very proud of that.

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