India operation “Sindoor” has inflicted “clear damage” on Pakistan military facilities and gave New Delhi an advantage during four -day military clashes between two nuclear neighbors, the New York Times reported, citing satellite images.
The report indicates that high resolution satellite imagery, before and after the strikes of India, has shown “clear damage” to the installations of Pakistan.
“The four-day military confrontation between India and Pakistan was the largest fighting in half a century between the two nuclear countries. As the two parties used drones and missiles to test the other aerial defenses and strike military installations, they claimed to inflict serious damage,” noted the NYT report.
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India had a “clear edge”
He also said that even if India’s attacks were “spread”, the damage was much more contained than the alleged and seemed mainly inflicted by India on Pakistani facilities.
According to the NYT report, the strikes of India and Pakistan were “targeted precisely”.
“Where India seems to have had a clear advantage, it is in its targeting of military installations and aerodromes of Pakistan, while this last section of combat passed symbolic strikes and strength shows to attacks against the defense capacities of the other,” said the report.
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The Indian armed forces said that the strikes were targeting a hinged aircraft at Bholari air base with a specific strike. The NYT report said: “The visuals have shown clear damage to what looks like a hangar.”
India strikes at Nur Khan air base, located a short distance from the sieges of the Pakistani army siege and the Prime Minister’s office, were “perhaps the most sensitive military objective that India has reached”. The military installation is also close to a Pakistani military division which controls the country’s nuclear command, noted the report.
The satellite images have also shown damage to the slopes and other facilities, which India said it has attacked. The NYT quoted Pakistan’a on May 10 Opinion on a non -operational track at the Rahim Yar Khan air base as another proof of the damage caused by Indian strikes.
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At the Sargodha air base in Punjab province in Pakistan, the Indian army said it had used precision weapons to hit two track sections.
The radar sites of the aviation base Pasrur and Siackot were also targeted using precision ammunition, causing massive damage.
Pakistan’s demand is not supported by evidence
“The satellite images of the sites that Pakistan claimed to have affected is limited, and so far, do not clearly show the damage caused by the Pakistani strikes even in the bases where there were corroborant evidence of a military action,” noted the report.
Pakistan officials claimed to have “destroyed” the Udhampur of India air base, but the report indicates that “an image of May 12 does not seem to show damage”.
