India says that it targeted the aerial defenses of Pakistan in strike on Thursday, in reception of violence between the two nuclear countries.
The Indian Defense Ministry said its forces had “targeted radars and air defense systems in several places in Pakistan”.
“He was reliably learned that an air defense system in Lahore has been neutralized,” the government said in a statement.
It was the first time that India has recognized Pakistani military facilities.
The targeting of air defenses threatens to deepen the crisis, because it suppresses the defenses and opens the way to more in -depth and deeper strikes.
India's declaration does not detail how the attacks were carried out.
The clashes between the two countries have increased in recent days, after India has produced military strikes overnight. He said that it was reprisals for a terrorist attack that killed 26 people in the contested region of cashmere last month.
For its part, Pakistan said Thursday that it has shot 25 Indian drones, including long -range drones of Israeli manufacturing that can spot and strike targets.
The Jerusalem post reported In 2019, India had bought several lots of HAROP drones in Israel, including the purchase of 10 drones in an agreement of $ 100 million.
“The debris of Harrop Israeli manufacturing drones are recovered in various regions of Pakistan,” the Pakistani army said in a statement.
India also declared in the press release that it had neutralized Pakistani missiles and drone attacks against its territory.
The use of drones in clashes between India and Pakistan is a new worrying development in a conflict of length of length on cashmere, and highlights the growing influence of war techniques and technologies used in the war in Ukraine.
The two countries have been using drones for years for cashmere recognition, Christopher Clary, professor at the University of Albany in New York, told BI, but never before “for apparent attacks against the other”.
“It seems possible that Pakistan and India are not approaching enemy air defenses,” he said about strikes.
Pakistan said 31 people had been killed in Indian strikes since Wednesday, while India said that Pakistan attacks killed 16.
The exchange of blows comes after an attack by Pakistani activists on Indian tourists in Kashmir on April 22, who killed 26 people. India has accused Pakistan of being behind the attack, an accusation that Pakistan denies.
