{"id":85086,"date":"2019-02-28T18:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T12:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2019-02-28T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T12:33:33","slug":"india-bombs-jaish-camp-in-pakistans-balakot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-bombs-jaish-camp-in-pakistans-balakot\/","title":{"rendered":"India bombs Jaish camp in Pakistan\u2019s Balakot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India with its Mirage-2000 fighter jets and other weapons has decimated multiple terror camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan.<\/li><li>A dozen of <strong>Mirage-2000<\/strong> were used, accompanied by four <strong>Sukhoi Su-30 <\/strong>aircraft. Sukhoi which is Russian origin aircraft acted as protective sheets were meant to provide cover if the Mirages were intercepted.<\/li><li>The Israeli <strong>Phalcon<\/strong> Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) and the indigenous <strong>Netra<\/strong> Airborne Early Warning and Control System Aircraft (AEW&amp;C) aircraft were deployed to monitor the mission to show that no aircraft was within 100 km while the operation was carried out.<\/li><li>The Mirage-2000 which were armed with <strong>SPICE-2000 <\/strong>and Crystal Maze Mark2, also known as <strong>AGM 142 Popeye missile<\/strong>.<\/li><li>The Israeli-built Popeye is a medium-range conventional missile which can be fired from a stand-off distance of around 90 km, i.e., the aircraft doesn\u2019t need to be vertically above the target to hit it.<\/li><li>The SPICE (Smart Precise Impact and Cost Effective guidance kit)-2000 is a forward and tail kit evolved by Israel from the Popeye missile, mounted on a standard 2000-pound Mk 84 unguided bomb. This converts it into smart guided air-to-surface munition that can be dropped from a stand-off distance of up to 60 km.It is a \u201cfire and forget\u201d weapon that automatically goes to its target once launched relying only on its navigation\/seeker system.<\/li><li>The <strong>Heron Unmanned Aerial vehicle (UAV<\/strong>) was used for monitoring and assessment of the target. Two <strong>IL-78 <\/strong>mid-air refuelling tankers were also used during the operations by the Mirage-2000 and Sukhoi Su-30 aircraft after the target was hit to return to various separate air bases.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India with its Mirage-2000 fighter jets and other weapons has decimated multiple terror camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan. A dozen of Mirage-2000 were used, accompanied by four Sukhoi Su-30 aircraft. Sukhoi which is Russian origin aircraft acted as protective sheets were meant to provide cover if the Mirages were intercepted. The Israeli&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-bombs-jaish-camp-in-pakistans-balakot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India bombs Jaish camp in Pakistan\u2019s Balakot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2219,2220,2221,2222,2223],"class_list":["post-85086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-heron-uav","tag-netra","tag-phalcon","tag-spice-2000","tag-sukhoi-su-30","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704746327},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}