From damaged F-16s and Swedish-made AWACS aircraft to shattered radar systems and command centres—India’s Operation Sindoor severely crippled multiple Pakistani Air Force bases in May this year, leaving the country scrambling for urgent repairs, exclusive documents and high-level confirmations accessed by CNN-News18 have revealed.

The revelations of the damage caused by the air strike, which flattened terrorist havens in Pakistan and PoK on May 9-10 in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack, fly in the face of the neighbour’s assertion that none of its aircraft were hit or destroyed.

CNN-News18 has learnt that the Indian strike damaged critical Pakistani military infrastructure, including a Swedish-made Saab 2000 Erieye AWACS, a Lockheed C-130, and at least four F-16 fighter jets. S

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