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A glimpse of Op Sindoor at Indo-Pak border
The Morning Standard
|February 28, 2026
THE Indian Air Force on Friday recreated key elements of Operation Sindoor at Pokhran during Vayu Shakti on Friday, laying out how it carried out strikes and countered aerial threats during last year’s hostilities with Pakistan.
President Droupadi Murmu, as the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces flew a sortie in the indigenous Prachand before witnessing the FPD (Force Protection Detachment). The sortie was undertaken as a two-aircraft LCH formation, with Chief of the Air staff Air Chief Marshal AP Singh flying the second helicopter.
With a deafening supersonic boom, a Rafale under the call sign “Brahmastra” opened the FPD, signalling its key role in the IAF’s future force structure after the government's nod earlier this month for 114 additional aircraft.
This story is from the February 28, 2026 edition of The Morning Standard.
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