India released extensive satellite imagery during a press briefing on the evening of May 11, 2025, showing confirmed damage to Pakistani air bases, radar sites and terrorist havens inflicted by all domain precision strike weapons of all three branches of India’s military between May 7 and 10 2025.

The Indian Ministry of Defence pointing to the newly released imagery stated that the Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully struck key Pakistani military installations including eight airbases and two radar sites. While New Delhi refrained from disclosing how many Pakistani aircraft were downed, officials confirmed that enemy planes were indeed shot down during the operation and were not allowed to enter India’s airspace.

The strikes were part of India’s Operation Sindoor, which despite a ceasefire agreed with Pakistan remains ongoing. Despite the high stakes environment, officials noted that the night of May 11, 2025, passed without significant hostile action from Pakistan. No aggressive escalation warranting further Indian response was observed, thus relatively stabilising the fragile ceasefire agreed after a call between the Director Generals of Military Operations(DGMO) of both countries on May 10.

In response to a question about Indian losses, the IAF declined to comment, citing the fact that operations were still undergoing but confirmed that all their pilots were home safe. However, IAF officials leading the briefing also said that in any combat situation, losses are expected, but the primary question is whether mission objectives were accomplished — and in this case, they were, completely. India’s calibrated approach, while assertive in its military execution, continues to be guided by strategic restraint.

Under Operation Sindoor the use of precise missile and loitering munition strikes - supported and verified by satellite intelligence - as well as the damage inflicted on adversary targets highlights the country’s capability to intercept threats of various sizes over its own airspace as well as penetrate enemy airspace and impose devastating costs.

This didn't stop some online claims that nuclear facilities in Pakistan had been hit by Indian munitions, and in at least one case attributed to a questionable X account, that radiation levels in the area had spiked as a result. Subsequent claims that this was in fact the reason for the ceasefire followed as did reports from the same account that the presence of an aircraft based in the continental US had somehow detected the increase in radiation. 

Meanwhile, images published of mountain slopes flanked only by farmland were even shown as the site of tunnels containing Pakistan's nuclear arsenal whilst the closest military base of note - a Pakistan Air Force facility - was several kilometres away.

Back in India, while panic didn’t grip the masses during over three days of heavy shelling, drone incursions and general exchange of fire from small arms, heavy casualties in border civilian areas were observed. Minor instances of panic bulk purchases of fuel and essential commodities were also observed in India’s Punjab region especially between May 9 and 11, however timely assurances and communication from the regional authorities largely kept things under control.