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After a week of claiming Indian fighter jet crossed the Line of Control and spend almost 21 minutes in Pakistani airspace, India is now claiming that the Targets in Balakot were hit from inside the Indian Airspace, no incursion in Pakistani Airspace has taken place.
A second official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the IAF was keen on crossing the LoC to bomb the target but it was decided that it should only fire the PGM “from Indian side of LoC”.
The S-2000 PGM used by IAF for the strike can be fired from a standoff distance of up to around 100 km, the official said.
The Indian Express has learnt that contrary to Pak claims, no IAF aircraft crossed the LoC and as per radar data reviewed by the IAF, the closest Pakistani aircraft was at a distance of about 120 km.
It is believed that Pakistan Air Force (PAF) had been taken in by the decoy “airstrike” feigned by IAF which suggested that it was going towards a city in southern Punjab. PAF scrambled its aircraft to tackle that threat leaving the space on the LoC open for the attack.
The second official also explained that as there was no airspace closure for civilian flights when the airstrike was launched, the government had to create a “dark corridor” for the IAF to move such a large fleet of aircraft to the target area.
This meant that these fighter jets had to take a long and circuitous route to avoid suspicion and monitoring by international civilian flights.
It is a long article please read at the link below.
https://indianexpress.com/article/i...icial-5607623/lite/?__twitter_impression=true
so a 1 ton bomb only damaged the roofs of these small buildings? And the damage was so little and the roofs were repaired within a day? 