Operation Sindoor - Analysis on Future Scenarios

[Amber G.]

Leaving the nostalgic montage of Operation Sindoor. Enjoy !

[Shameek]

It would be good to have a 'Never forgive' thread for April 22nd similar to the one we have for 26/11. Saw there is a new memorial setup.

[bala]

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War, Tech & Strategy: Lessons Learned from Iran War & Operation Sindoor | Sushant & Tilak

Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow, ORF
Tilak Devasher, Author; Former Member, National Security Advisory Board

the guests discuss the lessons India has drawn from the Iran war and the learnings from Operation Sindoor as it completes one year. The conversation explores military readiness, evolving threats, and the role of technology and strategy in shaping India’s defence posture.

[bala]

Pakistan’s Missing Nukes & King Charles–Trump Secret Pact? • Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan
PGurus May 6, 2026

Did OpSindoor damage or expose Pakistan’s covert nuclear infrastructure allegedly linked to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations? If not, where are those nuclear assets now? Has Pakistan quietly dispersed them under global pressure?

At the same time, reports and speculation around King Charles, the Crown Council, and Donald Trump’s deepening ties with the British establishment are creating geopolitical intrigue. Was a strategic offer made to Trump? What could Britain want in return as the global order rapidly shifts?



// according to Rajiv: india struck kirana hills, chagai hills, malir and nur khan. some cook off of these nuclear warheads could have happened triggering mini earth quakes. Boron was apparently used to shield radiation fall out. GE built out underground command control center in nur khan. brahmos went through ventilator shaft and blew up everything.

[bala]

Operation Sindoor: How India Hit Pakistan & What Pakistan Never Saw Coming | Vishnu Som, Aadi
May 6, 2026

Vishnu Som has a book and he re-verified whatever Indian Air force claimed to have hit. He used satellite pictures which he bought from external vendors and lo and behold they corroborated every site hit.

[uddu]

Op Sindoor Continues...
A NATION'S RESOLVE COMING SOON....

Nation’s Resolve. Forces United - OP Sindoor


Operation Sindoor Anniversary LIVE | Press Conference | Indian Army | Indian Navy | Indian Air Force

[Shameek]

The full cinematic tribute to #OperationSindoor is here - honouring courage, precision, and the unwavering spirit of our Defence Forces.

Watch the complete film and relive the moment that reflects India’s resolve to safeguard its sovereignty, unity, and integrity.

[arshyam]

Folks in BLR, there is a very interesting lecture on Pakistan happening tomorrow. I am part of the organizing group and would like to invite you all. Please try to attend if you are in town tomorrow. I don't think I need to introduce the speaker

[uddu]

When Pakistan Navy Ran For Cover: Inside Indian Navy’s Operation Sindoor | This Is Exclusive
When Pakistan Navy Ran For Cover: Inside Indian Navy’s Operation Sindoor | This Is Exclusive

Former Western Naval Commander Vice Admiral S J Singh breaks his silence on the Indian Navy’s role in Op Sindoor. He details how the carrier battle group surged to full red alert after the Pahalgam terror strike, bottled up Pakistan’s fleet within 25 nautical miles of its coast and kept its aircraft grounded for 96 hours, giving India escalation control at sea. From “cold start” to “cold strike”, the Navy’s deterrent posture forced Pakistan to retreat without firing a shot.

[uddu]

Op Sindoor: 88 Hours That Choked Pakistan | The Sandeep Unnithan Show Feat. VAdm Sanjay Jasjit Singh
One year after Operation Sindoor , Vice Admiral Sanjay Jasjeet Singh breaks his silence on the 88 hours that brought Pakistan to the brink.

Was India truly ready to choke Pakistan’s sea lifelines? Why did Islamabad sue for peace just as the “green light” was given? From naval coercion and China’s growing carrier threat to the strategic future of Great Nicobar, this conversation reveals how India’s maritime doctrine is rapidly changing — and why the Indian Ocean may define the next great power contest.

[Amber G.]

Pakistani deputy PM - Pakistan was ready for the ceasefire at the night of 9-10 may too but Indian govt chose to destroy Pakistani airbases. Last Punch before ending the war..

[uddu]

"Hit Back Immediately" - Blunt Lessons from Operation Sindoor | Maj. Gaurav Arya | WMG Bharatnomics
In this hard-hitting talk at WMG Bharatnomics, Bengaluru, Major Gaurav Arya (r), a veteran, defence analyst and Editor-in-Chief of the Chanakya Forum, delivers an unfiltered assessment of Operation Sindoor and what it truly revealed about India's strategic readiness.

He covers:
-- What India did right — and what it got dangerously wrong
-- Why the 15-day delay before striking was a strategic blunder
-- The Strait of Hormuz, the petrodollar, and lessons India must draw for itself
-- Why another Pakistan-backed attack is not a possibility — it's a certainty

"There is no friendship without fear." — Major Gaurav Arya, quoting Valmiki Ramayana on what must guide India's foreign policy.

Watch India's sharpest military mind speaking delivering a unfiltered assesment.

This edition of Bharatnomics was supported Clayworks.

Recorded at WMG Bharatnomics | May 8, 2026 | Bengaluru

[Manish_Sharma]

https://x.com/TheLegateIN/status/205693 ... 55917?s=20

Just In: Lab evaluations carried out by the DRDO and IAF made it possible to identify the radar emissions, frequency-agility logic and data link formats of the Chinese PL-15E missile used by Pakistan. These data were entered into threat libraries and translated into profiles exploitable by onboard systems. Direct access to the hardware removed the uncertainty that had until then weighed on the missile's detection and tracking modes, by providing measured and reproducible parameters for detection and categorization.

Software updates now deployed across Indian fighter fleets. Indigenous electronic warfare suites of the Tejas Mk1A and the Su-30MKI as well as the Rafale's SPECTRA system have received new jamming logics specific to the PL-15E- French defence media.

[tandav]

I am still bothered by the lack of concrete proof of PAF assets destroyed and acknowledged. USAF acknowledged multiple air assets including Reapers, AWACS, Refuelers F35s and F15 F18 destroyed in Iran conflict.

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/wh ... 88045.html

Reports like above are speculative and remains unacknowledged officially.

[Aditya_V]

Neither Pakistan or China or the West are going to acknowledge Paki losses going against the narrative, various Videos of PAF pilots, Satellite imagery and thier behavior is enough proof, they would never keep relatively quiet on IWT, if it had not gone absolutely bad for them they would some kind of military action weekly till IWT was restored.

BTW has any military factually acknowledged all thier losses or US/Iran/ Israel, same with Ukraine Russian war, what about Nato soldier deaths in Ukraine Russia war. Pakistan admitted 20% of its causualties in Kargil in the year 2010. And still does not publish it's causualties in Operation Parakram, the Pakistani Army has given gallantry awards postmously to 155 soldiers, that is without counting the PAF battering. You want Munir, Qatar, China, USA to say thier weapons failed? Did Indonesia cancel Rafale and order J10 due to shootdowns?

[williams]

I am still bothered by the lack of concrete proof of PAF assets destroyed and acknowledged. USAF acknowledged multiple air assets including Reapers, AWACS, Refuelers F35s and F15 F18 destroyed in Iran conflict.

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/wh ... 88045.html

Reports like above are speculative and remains unacknowledged officially.

War is politics. What political objectives the Pakis or their Uncles will achieve by acknowledging loses? They will have to win the support of at least their own Abduls and hence you are not going to get micro-level acknowledgements. However enough proof in terms of official briefings have been provided to win over our own Abduls. Still there are Abduls who will not trust our briefings. Abduls will believe in AP, Reuters and Bee Bee See. PTI or ANI reports will not be trusted.

From politics PoV we have declared any proxy attack on India will have a response. When we respond, we will have the capacity to defend and no nuclear blackmail, uncles or aunties can stop India from responding. Our response will neither disrupt our economic growth or will have any influence on our strategic autonomy or there will be any change in our terrorism policy. That message is loud and clear. The rest is noise and our folks have understood we need better noise management and the next time they will do better.

[la.khan]

Am I only one to feel that p@ki terrorism against India & Indians has come down ever since May 2025? Even in J&K where even small terrorist incidents (shootouts, bomb blasts, anti India rallies etc.) have completely stopped. Or, these incidents occurred and I missed them?

[KL Dubey]

^^Dont forget Punjab. Packee interference has been reduced dramatically. It will likely have an impact on the election.

[bala]

OPERATION SINDOOR ONE YEAR LATER ...WHO IS WINNING? / LT GEN PR SHANKAR
June 1, 2026

Shankar ji is contrasting things in Puke land vs India since Op Sindoor, not getting into how many aircrafts were shot etc. Pukeland has gone from bad to worse, shortage of fuel, shortage water and much more. BLA is having a field day and so are Afghans in the north.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dDIGZFFymA

[g.sarkar]

https://www.rediff.com/news/interview/o ... 260605.htm
Op Sindoor: 'Pakistan Was Completely Blind'
Satarupa Bhattacharjya, June 05, 2026
General Anil Chauhan, who retired as Chief of the Defence Staff on May 31, says the integrated theatre command plan he has proposed to the government takes into consideration India's strategic challenges on land and opportunities in water.
In an interview with Satarupa Bhattacharjya/Business Standard, the CDS also spoke about Operation Sindoor, the India-China border and India's defence budget.
What are your major reflections on Operation Sindoor one year later?
Militarily, we can say that it was different from all the wars that India has fought until now, very unique in its own self.
When I look back and think why we won, we won not (only) because we were able to carry out long-range precision strikes.
That is, of course, one of the reasons but we had better situational awareness about what's happening than Pakistan.
We were immediately aware about where our strikes were taking place, what the effects of those strikes were.
We were also aware of what the adversary was undertaking and whether he was even able to achieve something or not. That helped us with any kind of decision-making.
The Pakistan side was completely blind, not only during those days when they lost this offensive on the 10th (May 10, 2025, when the ceasefire was declared), but even after three-four days.
They were not sure as to what they've been able to do. Because of this, we were able to control the escalation -- that is one important thing.
We were able to choose the timing of ceasing hostilities when we were on top.
I knew when they (Pakistan) first spoke (via the military hotline) at 9:30 am (on May 10) that, okay they wanted to talk, but we continued so that the margin of victory was absolute, and it also helped us to terminate the conflict when we wanted.
Is India better equipped to handle asymmetric warfare in general but with Pakistan in particular?
Pakistan's philosophy of using proxy war or asymmetric war -- I think they don't understand it -- but it's a strategy of diminishing returns.
When I say this, it is because with every act of terrorism, major act of terrorism, new space for conventional operations is created (for India): Uri (2016), Balakot (2019), Sindoor (2025).
When I say more space for conventional operations, I am not talking about more spatial distances -- that, of course, and depth is there. It's force levels, it is domains.
You talk about preparations, there are two things. One is to deter, so that people are deterred and do not use this as a policy. And second is to prevent.
The armed forces are more towards building deterrence than prevention. The armed forces are part of it (prevention), but it is intelligence agencies, state governments -- all of us have to work together to see that such incidents don't occur.
How are things along India's border with China, including India's operational readiness and infrastructure development?
Also, has 100 per cent disengagement been achieved and what to extent has de-escalation taken place (since the Galwan River valley clash of June 15-16, 2020)?
In October 2024, India had an agreement with China and, based on that, both sides have been able to restore their respective patrolling rights.
The disengagement in Depsang and Demchok (eastern Ladakh) is complete.
Having said that, de-escalation, formal de-escalation through talks (military level), hasn't taken place.
But yes, unilateral de-escalation has taken place. I would say the situation on the border currently is peaceful, both sides are maintaining the agreed protocols for maintaining peace and tranquillity.
As far as our preparation levels are concerned, by now, they (Indian troops) have spent about four or five winters, so they're well-settled.
Now the infrastructure for them (and their equipment) is there. The preparedness level is high.
Regarding infrastructure, we are working on multiple access and all-weather connectivity to Ladakh, so that will increase our operational preparedness (further).
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Gautam