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After the claims made during a seminar by Indian Navy Captain Shiv Kumar that Indian Air Force had faced aircraft losses in Operation Sindoor, Indian Embassy in Indonesia has issued a clarification.
The comments were earlier made by Defence Attaché, Navy Captain Shiv Kumar, regarding Indian Air Force losses during Operation Sindoor attributing them to Indian political leadership’s instructions against targeting military sites in Pakistan.
Captain Kumar’s statements came during a seminar titled ‘Analysis of the Pakistan-India Air Battle and Indonesia’s Anticipatory Strategies from the Perspective of Air Power’.
He further stated that following these losses, the Indian armed forces adjusted their tactics. “We went for the military installations… we first achieved suppression of enemy air defences and then… all our attacks could easily go through using BrahMos missiles,” he added.
The embassy stated that the captain’s remarks had been taken out of context and misrepresented by the media.
In a statement posted on X, the embassy said that the presentation delivered by Captain Kumar at a recent seminar was misunderstood. “We have seen media reports regarding a presentation made by the Defence Attaché at a seminar. His remarks have been quoted out of context and the media reports are a misrepresentation of the intention and thrust of the presentation made by the speaker,” the embassy said.
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The statement further clarified that the presentation highlighted the principle that the Indian Armed Forces operate under civilian political leadership, unlike some other countries in the region. It also explained that the objective of Operation Sindoor was to target terrorist infrastructure, and that India’s response was deliberately non-escalatory.
