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Indian Air Force precision strike to mark 2 years of Balakot ops

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NEW DELHI: The IAF carried out a long-range precision strike mission against a practice target at Pokhran in Rajasthan to mark the second anniversary of the pre-dawn bombing of the JeM terror facility at Balakot in Pakistan on February 26 in 2019.

The mission was conducted by the same Mirage-2000 fighter jet squadron that had conducted the Balakot strikes, in which five of the six designated targets were hit in the cross-border operation codenamed `Operation Bandar’ two years ago, as was earlier reported by TOI.

IAF chief Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria on Saturday also flew a Mirage-2000 in a multi-aircraft sortie, which included Sukhoi-30MKI jets as well, to commemorate the occasion, said officers.