'We were fighting three enemies during Operation Sindoor', says Army, apart from Pakistan there were...
He said that during the war with Pakistan, live updates were being given to it by China. Apart from this, Turkey was also helping it. In this way, the Indian Army was fighting three enemies at one time. Deputy Army Chief Rahul Singh said in a programme organized by FICCI that live updates were being given to Pakistan by the Chinese during the war. In this way, China was helping Pakistan completely.
Addressing a programme organized on the topic of new era military technology, Lieutenant General said, 'We had one border, but there were two enemies and in reality there were three. Pakistan was right in front and China was helping it in every way. Even 81 percent of the weapons that Pakistan has are from China. In this way, China also tested its weapons in front of other weapons. In this way, a live lab was created for China for the purpose of testing its weapons. Similarly, Turkey also helped Pakistan in its own way. When the DGMO level was being discussed, Pakistan was getting complete updates from China.' What did Deputy Army Chief advice?
Lieutenant General Rahul Singh said that we must have a strong air defense so that we can deal with the threat from Pakistan and China together. He said, 'It is important how the air security was during the entire operation. This time there was no major damage to our citizens, but we will have to strengthen our air defense system further.' During this, he also praised the Indian Army and said that we attacked Pakistan with great precision and targeted the same places from where the terrorists were getting training. What was the message from leadership?
He said that we have also learned something from Operation Sindoor. There was a clear message to us from the leadership. It was said that there is no need to forget the pain we have suffered. We used to do this a few years ago. Based on data, we decided the targets and then planned the attacks. For this, we used technology and human intelligence. We had obtained information about a total of 21 targets and targeted 9 of them. Not only this, we decided at the last moment which 9 places were to be targeted.
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