Army newsletter tells how Operation Sindoor was monitored live

Indian Army’s internal newsletter has shared details of Operation Sindoor and how the operation was being monitored live by the three service chiefs as well as the Chief of Defence Staff General, Anil Chauhan.

The Indian military leadership were together in an Army ops room-type facility in the South Block watching the strikes unfold live. The latest edition of the Army’s newsletter ‘Baatcheet’ focuses on Operation Sindoor and has pictures of the senior military leadership watching the live-feed on giant TV screens in front of them.

Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan, Army chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi, Army Vice Chief Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani and Director General Military Operations Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai were among those present.

The Army commanders of Northern Command, Western  Command, South Western command and Southern Command joined in live through a secured data link.

The unique facility in South Block gets live transmission from multiple systems like satellites, drones and airborne sensors. Some of the missiles fired on May 7 at terror camps have the ability to relay back the video from its nose-tip during its flight.

The newsletter also mentioned that Army air defence had destroyed nearly 300 incoming Pakistani drones using L-70, ZU-23 guns, OSA-AK combat vehicles, and MRSAM (Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missile) and Akash air defence systems.

The newsletter also names the creators of the Operation Sindoor logo — Lt Col Harish Gupta and Havildar Surinder Singh.

The Army newsletter stated that The Resistance Front (TRF) was a front of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) along with the ‘Kashmir Fight’ and the United Liberation Front Kashmir. It added that Kashmir Tigers and People’s Anti-Fascist Front are frontal organisations of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM).