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Indian Air Force: Kargil Vijay Diwas
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Issue Net Edition | Date : 27 Jul , 2015

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In fact, IAF's MiG 21s operated without the modern navigation equipments and managed with handheld GPS gazettes. IAF even reportedly selected weapon impact points which would snowball into landslides or avalanches over intruded snowy peaks. IAF and Army worked in close coordination while the air power not only inflicted heavy damages to intruders, equipment and their administrative bases but also brought down the casualties on ground while wiping off the enemy from Dog Hill and the Tiger Hills. Unnerved with about 6,500 IAF sorties including strike, reconnaissance, evacuations, transportation and logistic support. IAF mission strikes also disrupted and cut off the supply lines of enemy to an extent that even the wounded could not be evacuated. So exhaustive was the planning that IAF inflicted 300 enemy casualties in a mere two minutes in one of the air strikes of two Mirages over Northern Light Infantry's camp which it allowed to grow to a size plump enough to strike in one go harvesting impressive results.

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