mo4ch:>‘Most significant air action by the IAF in 4+ decades’: Indian air chief says Balakot air strikes showed Delhi's ‘firm resolve’ | Mo4ch News

New Delhi’s pre-dawn air raid on a militant training camp in Balakot, Pakistan last year marked the country’s largest air force action in 40 years, India’s air chief said nearly one year to the day after the dramatic operation.The strikes, carried out last February in retaliation for the Pulwama terrorist attack – which killed 40 Indian troops in Kashmir – targeted a training facility operated by Islamist terror cell Jaish-e-Mohammed. It was the largest air operation seen in the region in decades, involving 12 Mirage 2000 fighter jets, Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria told the Times of India in an interview.“These strikes were the most significant air action by the IAF in over four decades, with our fighters penetrating deep into Pakistani airspace, executing a precise attack on the terror camp and returning home unchallenged despite the full air defence alert by PAF [Pakistani Air Force],” Bhadauria said of the operation, which brought the nuclear-arm…