'these Drone Attacks Are Not Attack': Former Iaf Officer Signals A Bigger Threat

The activity of drone incursions from Pakistan isn’t simply an violative — it’s reconnaissance, a prelude to thing bigger, warns erstwhile Indian Air Force serviceman Ajay Ahlawat.

“These drone attacks are not attacks. These are probes — testing AD [air defence], absorbing physics signature, knowing guidance time. This is mentation for attack,” Ahlawat wrote connected X.

India's occidental beforehand has been connected precocious alert since Thursday night, aft Pakistan launched complete 300 drones crossed 26 locations, including Baramulla, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Bhuj, and Jaisalmer. Armed drones moreover struck civilian zones, pinch 3 civilians earnestly injured successful Ferozepur, Punjab.

“Pakistan has erstwhile again proven that it's a violent state,” Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha said, calling nan strikes “shameful and cowardly.”

According to Senior Superintendent of Police Bhupinder Singh Sidhu, 3 injured civilians sustained terrible burns successful Ferozepur. The Indian Army stated that astir drones were intercepted and destroyed utilizing counter-drone systems.

In response, precautionary blackouts were enforced successful aggregate regions, including Akhnoor and Udhampur successful Jammu and Kashmir, Ferozepur successful Punjab, Jaisalmer successful Rajasthan, and areas of Haryana.

India's defence servants of nan state is successful overdrive. Prime Minister Narendra Modi held 2 emergency meetings — 1 pinch Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval, and different pinch Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, nan 3 work chiefs, and Chief of Defence Staff to measure threats and find a strategical response.

“The business is nether adjacent and changeless watch,” nan Army said, urging separator residents to enactment indoors and travel information directives. “There is nary request for panic, but heightened vigilance is essential.”

India’s blase aerial defence systems, including nan S-400, were instrumental successful repelling nan Pakistani aerial assault.

Published on: May 10, 2025 7:39 AM IST