Beyond the border: How India is building firepower to strike targets 1,000km away

India struck terror targets deep inside Pakistani territory in response to the terror attack on unarmed civilians in Pahalgam, . Right after the pinpointed attack on the nine terror targets, (seven by the army and two by the air force) the Pakistanis hit back, with the tempo of operations reaching a crescendo on May 10. The Pakistanis launched rocket attacks on India that were intercepted by air defence missiles near the Sirsa air base. Within the next few hours a series of missile and drone strikes destroyed Pakistani air defence sites and precise Brahmos missile strikes neutralised key Pakistani air bases, hampering the ability to launch fighter aircraft till the runways were fixed. Soon afterwards the hotline connected between the Director Generals of Military Operations, started ringing in Delhi and the rest is history.Operation Sindoor ushered in the era of non-contact and non-kinetic warfare in the Indian sub-continent.