On a humid Delhi afternoon, as cameras whirred and reporters leaned forward for the annual press conference ahead of 93rd Air Force Day, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh did something unusual. For the first time since Operation Sindoor, he offered a blow-by-blow account of how the Indian Air Force had struck deep inside Pakistan in four-day conflict with Pakistan in early May.

Calm, measured, but with an edge of satisfaction, the Air Chief announced that the IAF had destroyed about a dozen Pakistani aircraft, among them the much-touted U.S.-built F-16s, Chinese-made JF-17s, a C-130-class transport plane, and even a sophisticated airborne surveillance aircraft.

It was not just a tally of wreckage. Singh’s remarks peeled back the curtain on the scale and precision of India’s first major air camp

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