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New Delhi: In a veiled attempt to downplay India\u2019s military embarrassment during Operation Sindoor, Indian Army\u2019s Deputy Chief, Lt Gen Rahul Singh, blamed China\u2019s support for Pakistan, calling the battlefield a \u201clive weapons lab\u201d for Chinese arms.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, speaking at a defence event in New Delhi, he pointed to the \u201ctwo-front threat\u201d as a key reason behind India\u2019s challenges, subtly redirecting accountability for the defeat towards external factors rather than internal shortcomings.<\/p>\n
Shifting the blame on the Pakistan-China alliance, the Deputy Chief pointed out that India has “two adversaries on one border,” where Pakistan was on the front and China was providing all possible support.<\/p>\n
The Deputy COAS said that Pakistan has 81 per cent Chinese hardware in their military fleet. “Air Defence and how it panned out during the entire operation was important… This time, our population centres were not quite addressed, but next time, we need to be prepared for that… So few lessons I must flag as far as Operation Sindoor is concerned. Firstly, we had one border and two adversaries, actually three. Pakistan was in the front. China was providing all possible support. In the last five years, 81% of the military hardware with Pakistan is Chinese…” he said.<\/p>\n
In a tacit admission of India’s Air Force failure, the Deputy COAS emphasised the need for a robust air defence system, and revealed that Pakistan had “live updates” on India’s important vectors that too, with China’s help.<\/p>\n
He said, “China can test its weapons against other weapons, so it’s like a live lab available to them. Turkey also played an important role in providing the type of support it did; they gave Bayraktar and numerous other drones… When DGMO-level talks were on, Pakistan had the live updates of our important vectors, from China… We need a robust air defence system…”<\/p>\n
Lt Gen Rahul R Singh further emphasised the strategic messaging and integration of technology and human intelligence in target selection and planning.<\/p>\n
“… There are a few lessons from Operation Sindoor. The strategic messaging by leadership was unambiguous… There is no scope of absorbing the pain the way we did a few years ago… The planning and selection of targets was based on a lot of data that was collected using technology and human intelligence. So a total of 21 targets were identified, out of which nine targets we thought would be prudent to engage… It was only the final day or the final hour that the decision was taken that these nine targets would be engaged,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: In a veiled attempt to downplay India\u2019s military embarrassment during Operation Sindoor, Indian Army\u2019s Deputy Chief, Lt Gen Rahul Singh, blamed China\u2019s support for Pakistan, calling the battlefield a \u201clive weapons lab\u201d for Chinese arms. According to Kashmir Media Service, speaking at a defence event in New Delhi, he pointed to the \u201ctwo-front …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":178376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}