India Uses HARPY Drones, S-400 Missile Defence System To Counter Pak Attack

New Delhi:
The Russian-made S-400 defence system was used to neutralise the 15 missiles Pakistan fired at Indian cities late last night and early this morning, and Israeli HARPY drones were then deployed to disable Pak air defence radars, including one in Lahore, sources said Thursday.

Sources told news agency ANI the Air Force fired the S-400 system at 'moving targets' heading towards India last night, and that these targets were successfully neutralised.

India then deployed HARPY drones to disable Pak air defence radars, sources said.

Earlier today the government said Pakistani forces had targeted military installations in 15 cities in the northern and western parts of the country - including Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, and Gujarat.

These attempts were negated and, in return, Pak air defence systems were disabled.

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Debris from the destroyed drones and missiles is being collected, the government also said, and will add to the volume of evidence supporting India's charges that Pakistan supports cross-border terrorism targeting India, whether by financial funding or military training.


Attempts by Pak to target Indian military facilities come a day after Operation Sindoor - India's armed response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people, mostly civilians.

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Nine terror bases in Pak and Pak-occupied Kashmir were destroyed and over 100 terrorists were killed, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told opposition leaders at a briefing this morning.

HARPY Drones
The HARPY is designed to attack radar systems and is optimised to operate in a 'suppression of enemy air defences', or SEAD, role. It carries a high-explosive warhead and has a special radar that can autonomously seek and strike radiation-emitting, high-value targets.