Pakistan targeted Delhi with high-speed missile during Operation Sindoor: Discovery documentary

Pakistan’s final main offensive, which focused New Delhi with a high-speed missile 71 hours into Operation Sindoor, triggering India’s “ultimate retaliatory assault”, in line with a Discovery docuseries, Declassified: Operation Sindoor. India efficiently intercepted the assault utilizing the Barak-8 surface-to-air missile system at Sirsa, Haryana. The Documentary was, launched on August 15, 2026, gives an in depth account of the Might 2025 standoff between India and Pakistan.

“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”, stated nationwide safety analyst Nitin Gokhale. The Ministry of Defence beforehand stated that the assault focused Indian Air Drive bases and different navy installations, however didn’t publicly determine New Delhi as a goal.

The assault triggered an intense assault from India, the primary main assault concentrating on 11 Pakistani airbases. “This time the complete duty was given to the Air Drive to launch the BrahMos Cruise Missiles,” stated Gokhale. The primary part of the assault focused Rafiqui, Sukkur, Rahim Yar Khan and Nur Khan airbases, whereas the second wave focused Sargodha, Bholari and Jacobabad.

“The intent was to maintain it calibrated and measured and drive dwelling a message that, look, we are able to hit you at will, and you haven’t any reply to it,” stated Air Marshal Awadesh Bharti, SYSM, AVSM, VM. Senior officers claimed that the assault paralysed Pakistan’s air defence mechanisms, together with runways, hangars and parked plane. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif additionally admitted the harm, talking on the Pakistan-Türkiye-Azerbaijan summit in Lachin, Azerbaijan, in late Might 2025.

“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, stated. “Issues have been actually taking place the way in which we needed it to… All our weapons have been reaching the right locations.” The assault was led by high-speed BrahMos-A cruise missiles and prompted Pakistani navy management to hunt an instantaneous halt to the battle.

Pakistani Director Normal of Navy Operations (DGMO) reached out by way of the established navy hotline by the following morning. Pakistan Military Chief Normal Asim Munir additionally contacted US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. He requested Washington’s pressing intervention to halt the quickly escalating Indian offensive. Marco Rubio instantly known as India’s Exterior Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, conveying Pakistan’s determined message that they needed the preventing to cease.

Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, SYSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, India’s DGMO throughout Operation Sindoor, stated that he obtained a message at round 9 am native time that Pakistan’s DGMO needed to talk. He stated the MEA additionally informed him that the Pakistanis have been “frantically attempting to name.”

“Sir, having hit so many BrahMos missiles at us, it’s best to now be glad, and we are able to convey this to a cease,” stated Pakistan’s DGMO Maj Gen Kashif Abdullah in line with Ghai’s account. “As soon as they requested, and repeatedly requested, saying, ‘Now it’s sufficient, you’ve finished sufficient harm, now let’s have a ceasefire,’ we conceded to their request,” India’s Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval stated. “We have been additionally very clear that we do not have to linger on it.” At round 5.30 pm, it was agreed that either side would stop hostilities.