PM Modi hails forces at Adampur for Operation Sindoor: Why this airbase is crucial

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Tuesday visited the

Adampur airbase

successful Punjab, wherever helium interacted with Indian Air Force personnel. The sojourn came conscionable days aft the motorboat of Operation Sindoor.PM Modi described his gathering with the jawans arsenic a "special experience" and expressed heavy gratitude to the equipped forces connected behalf of each Indians for their work to the nation.The Adampur airbase was actively progressive successful Operation Sindoor and was among the cardinal subject locations targeted by the Pakistani subject past Wednesday.Adampur is India’s second-largest airbase aft Hindon Air Force Station. It houses the formidable

S-400 aerial defence system

, besides known arsenic the "Sudarshan Chakra," and serves arsenic an operational basal for

MiG-29 jets

.

During a property briefing connected Saturday, Wing Commander Wyomika Singh dismissed Pakistan's claims of destroying the S400 aerial defence system, calling it portion of a malicious misinformation run by Pakistan and confirmed that each specified claims are fake.Air Force Station Adampur began arsenic a tiny airstrip during World War II, located adjacent Adampur connected the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur highway.It was officially established arsenic No. 305 Wing connected March 16, 1950, and was aboriginal renumbered arsenic No. 8 Wing successful 1956.The airbase played a captious relation successful the India-Pakistan wars of 1965 and 1971 and has been location to MiG-29 combatant jets for galore years. It besides supported operations during the 1999 Kargil conflict, erstwhile combatant jets from Adampur, including Mirages from No. 7 Squadron, carried retired strikes connected Tiger Hill, Muntho Dhalo, and Tololing.To enactment determination aerial connectivity, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) constructed a civilian airdrome adjacent to the...