Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra, in an interview with ANI, said that it was because of the Russian S-400 air defence system that Pakistani jets could not reach within 200 kilometres of the Indian border during Operation Sindoor.
Mishra said that Pakistan was “desperate” to find out where the S-400s were located and had activated spies and sleeper cells in order to reach them.
“Pakistanis were desperate to find where these S-400s were. They used every trick in the book. They were also getting satellite help from other nations,” Mishra said.
Although he did not name the nations, the Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Rahul R. Singh had earlier said that China was providing its ‘all-weather friend’ Pakistan with real-time inputs about India’s important vectors.
“Every time they (Pakistan) got airborne, they were shot by an S-400. The S-400 was the biggest threat as far as they were concerned. They also activated spies and sleeper cells within India to find out where the S-400s were located,” the air marshal said.
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