“We didn’t know Kirana Hills has nukes” — Air Marshal Bharti’s viral response | What India really hit - video Dailymotion

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As claims flooded the internet that India hit Pakistan’s Kirana Hills — a highly fortified nuclear storage site — during Operation Sindoor, the Indian Air Force officially denied it.

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00:00Thank you for telling us that Kirana Hill houses some nuclear installation.

00:04We did not know about it.

00:06Social media has been on fire with claims that India hit Pakistan's Kirana Hills,

00:10a site believed to house nuclear warheads deep inside reinforced mountain caves.

00:14Located in Pakistan's Punjab, Kirana Hills is no ordinary terrain.

00:18It's a fortified zone tied to the country's nuclear infrastructure.

00:22But did India actually target it?

00:24We've not hit Kirana Hills, whatever is there.

00:26Okay, I did not brief in my briefing yesterday.

00:30Kirana Hills, just 20 kilometers from the Sargoda airbase

00:33and 75 kilometers from the Kushab nuclear plant,

00:36it's considered a critical link in Pakistan's nuclear chain.

00:39The hills reportedly hide at least 10 fortified tunnels

00:42built by Pakistan's Special Works Development Unit

00:45using reinforced cement concrete and thermo-mechanically treated iron rods

00:49designed to withstand high-impact blasts.

00:52Retired Indian military officials and satellite imagery experts

00:55have long viewed the area as a hardened storage site with a multi-layered defense system.

01:00During its operation Sindur Counter-Strike,

01:02the Indian Air Force hit 11 targets deep inside Pakistan.

01:05These included major air bases like Rafiki,

01:08Murid, Sialkot, Raheem Yarkhan and most notably Noor Khan and Sargoda.

01:13The Noor Khan airbase near Rawalpindi, home to Pakistan's top military transport aircraft

01:17like the C-130 and IL-78, also lies dangerously close to the Strategic Plans Division,

01:23the command center for Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.

01:26Former US officials told the New York Times that strikes so close to nuclear infrastructure

01:31might have been a deliberate signal.

01:33India knows exactly where to hit if pushed.

01:36The strikes at Noor Khan and Sargoda showed India's capability to penetrate deep

01:40and if needed, neutralize Pakistan's nuclear assets.

01:43While India maintains a no-first-use policy, Pakistan has no such stated restraint.

01:48Satellite images also indicated runway damage at Mushaf Air Base in Sargoda,

01:53which has reported links to the underground storage beneath Kirana Hills.

01:56This further fueled speculation.

01:58Was Kirana Hills indirectly hit or was it just a message?

02:02And so even though India officially denied hitting Kirana Hills,

02:05the real message seemed loud and clear.

02:08Thank you for telling us that Kirana Hill houses some nuclear installation.

02:12We did not know about it.

02:13His grin went viral among Indian audiences seen as a calm yet confident message.

02:18We know we are ready, but we are not reckless.

“We didn’t know Kirana Hills has nukes” — Air Marshal Bharti’s viral response | What India really hit

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