Air Power That Turned The Tide At 18,000 Feet
Around 6,500 sorties were flown and fighter jets were airborne for 1,200 sorties. The enemy had fortified its position at 18,000 feet on the icy heights of Kargil. A mass mobilization of troops began to evict the soldiers of Pakistan’s Northern Light Infantry (NLI) disguised as militants. What was assumed to be a low-scale limited…