Military Operations Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai (left) and Director General AK Bharti, Director General of Air Transportation, addressed the media at the National Meida Center in New Delhi on May 12, 2025. Image source: Sushil Kumar Verma
The Army said that despite agreeing to continue to promise that both sides must not shoot or launch any aggressive and unparalleled actions, both India and Pakistan agreed on Monday (May 12, 2025) that both sides “consider taking immediate measures to ensure reduced forces from the border and advance areas”.
This was agreed in a meeting between the Directors of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the two countries held on the Established Hotline, “The issues related to the commitment to continue the commitment must not be fired a single shot or any aggressive and meaningless action against each other,” the Army said.
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This effectively promoted the understanding reached between DGMOs on May 10 to prevent all military activities that took effect at 5 p.m. later that day. The military confirmed that while Pakistan violated this within a few hours, the gun remained silent on Sunday (May 11, 2025) night and there were still no drones in the sky.
Earlier in the day, Air Marshal Ak Bharti (DGAO), Director General of Air Operations, stressed: “Although some minor losses were caused during the operation of Sindor, all of our military bases and systems will continue to operate in full and are ready to perform any further missions if needed.”
The three Directors General (Operations) underscore how the country’s Air Defence (AD) grid functioned seamlessly to shoot down the waves and waves of incoming drones, loitering municipalities and missings launched by Pakistan between May 7 and 10. “I would like to highlight again that in every single domain that Operation Sindoor has been prosecuted, there has been total synergy between the three Services,” noted Lt. Gen. Rajiv Ghai, Director-General of General Military Operations.
DG, Naval Operations, Deputy Admiral is Pramod, who said that its powerful offensive capabilities, operator combat group (CBG) was able to “have insufficient punishment and maintain an undisputed presence” in the operational field. “Effectively, it forces Pakistani air elements to remain bottling near the coast of Makaran, denying the opportunity to be a threat in maritime space.”
Despite the relentless efforts of Pakistani forces, Bharti Air Marshal Bharti delved into how the Indian armed forces managed to minimize damage to the country’s civilian and military infrastructure. In this regard, it is pointed out that while much has been made on the new system, DGAO emphasizes even older and combative advertising weapons such as Pechora, Osa-Ak and L-70, Zu 23 mm and Schilka guns against the Pakistani threat vectors in the current operation.
Another highlight, he said, is the outstanding performance of Indigenous advertising weapons, such as the Akash ground-to-air missile system. “I would also like to mention that the operation of this effective advertising environment has been brought together over the past decade as the government provides unwavering budget and policy support for the acquisition of state-of-the-art equipment and weapon systems.”
Maritime surveillance
Deputy Admiral Pramod said that in the current standoff, the presence of aircraft carriers with a large number of Mig-29k fighters and early warning helicopters in the air “prevented any suspicious or hostile aircraft from shutting down CBG within a few hundred kilometers.”
“In the past few years, most importantly, after the timid incidents in Pahalgam by Pakistan-funded terrorist attacks, we used cross-platform cooperation mechanisms to validate our anti-subsidence and reflective defense capabilities in complex threat environments,” the official said. “The Indian Navy has the reliable capability to detect, identify and neutralize any air platforms that threaten our sea forces.”
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