The missile was intercepted over Sirsa in Haryana at round 1:30 am on Could 10, nationwide safety analyst Nitin Gokhale mentioned in Discovery’s two-part docuseries, Declassified: Operation Sindoor. The documentary, launched at 9 pm on August 15, gives an in depth account of the occasions that led as much as and adopted India’s Operation Sindoor.
“At about 1:30 or 1:45, one high-speed missile was launched by Pakistan, geared toward Delhi, which was intercepted at Sirsa in Haryana,” Gokhale mentioned.
The Ministry of Defence had beforehand mentioned that on Could 10 at roughly 1:30 am, Pakistan launched “a large assault on Indian Air Power bases, Military ammunition depots, airports and army cantonments utilizing missiles, drones, rockets, and different long-range weapons.” It has not, nonetheless, publicly recognized Delhi because the supposed goal of one of many missiles.
Indians wakened on Could 10, 2025, to broadly circulating movies of the particles of the intercepted missile mendacity in a discipline in Sirsa. Subsequent studies prompt that the risk had been neutralised utilizing the Barak-8 surface-to-air missile system by an Indian Air Power unit stationed in Sirsa.
This assault concentrating on India’s nationwide capital, Gokhale mentioned, was the sign for India to launch its “last retaliatory assault.”
“This time the total accountability was given to the Air Power to launch the BrahMos Cruise Missiles,” he mentioned.
IAF’s large response
Shortly after Pakistan’s tried strikes on India, the Indian Air Power struck airfields, radar websites, and command-and-control centres in Pakistan. This marked India’s first main strike on Pakistani airbases.
The preliminary part of the assault hit Pakistan’s Rafiqui, Sukkur, Rahim Yar Khan and Nur Khan airbases, whereas bases equivalent to Sargodha, Bholari and Jacobabad have been struck within the second wave. Inside hours, India had struck 11 Pakistani bases.
“The intent was to maintain it calibrated and measured and drive residence a message that, look, we are able to hit you at will and you don’t have any reply to it,” Air Marshal Awadesh Bharti, SYSM, AVSM, VM, mentioned.
Senior officers within the docuseries detailed vital harm to Pakistani airbases, together with runways, hangars and parked plane.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, talking on the Pakistan-Türkiye-Azerbaijan summit in Lachin, Azerbaijan, in late Could 2025, had additionally acknowledged the harm brought on by India’s missile and BrahMos assaults at numerous places, together with the Rawalpindi airport.
“We engaged them on a entrance of virtually 1,200 kilometres, nearly 200 kilometres deep inside his territory,” Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, PVSM, AVSM, mentioned. “Issues have been actually taking place the way in which we needed it to… All our weapons have been reaching the proper locations.”
The BrahMos-A cruise missiles have been on the centre of this salvo.
“BrahMos has a really excessive velocity of assault. The probabilities of it getting intercepted are much less. The harm it creates is rather more than some other smaller velocity weapon,” Singh mentioned. “One of the best half was that it was a home-grown weapon.”
Inside hours of the Indian strikes, Pakistani officers started in search of contact with New Delhi, in response to the collection.
The DGMO name that ended it
Gokhale mentioned that by the morning, Pakistani officers have been making an attempt to achieve the Indian institution, with Pakistan Military chief Area Marshal Asim Munir additionally contacting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio, in flip, referred to as India’s Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to convey that Pakistan needed the combating to cease.
India’s response was that it might not settle for mediation from one other nation, Gokhale recounted. Rubio was instructed that Pakistan’s Director Basic of Army Operations ought to contact the Indian DGMO by the designated channel for army communication between the 2 nations.
Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, SYSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM***, India’s DGMO throughout Operation Sindoor, mentioned he obtained a message at round 9 am informing him that his Pakistani counterpart needed to talk with him. He mentioned the MEA additionally instructed him that the Pakistanis have been “frantically making an attempt to name.”
“Murphy’s legislation additionally performed a job. There was a bit of snag within the hotline. We acquired the road rectified. That took perhaps an hour or so,” Ghai mentioned. “By then, we had taken a call that there’s no hurt in listening to what the Pakistani DGMO needed to say.”
The 2 officers finally spoke at round 3:30 pm.
“Often, the one that asks for the decision speaks first. So, Maj Gen Kashif Abdullah, the Pakistani DGMO, began as per that custom,” Ghai mentioned.
In line with his account, it didn’t take Abdullah lengthy to say that Pakistan needed a ceasefire. He recalled the Pakistani DGMO telling him: “Sir, having hit so many BrahMos missiles at us, you must now be happy, and we are able to convey this to a cease.”
“As soon as they requested, and repeatedly requested, saying, ‘Now it’s sufficient, you’ve performed sufficient harm, now let’s have a ceasefire,’ we conceded to their request,” India’s Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval mentioned. “We have been additionally very clear that we do not have to linger it on.”
Lastly, it was agreed that by 5:30 pm on Could 10, each side would stop hostilities.
Whereas the battle finally ended, Doval mentioned India had conveyed a transparent message to the world.
“India’s generosity or India being extra tolerant shouldn’t be mistaken for its weak spot,” he mentioned. “India can take dangers, India can hit exhausting no matter the results.”
