Did India Deploy AD Guns Inside Golden Temple? Army Says…

New Delhi: It can have became out catastrophic if India had now not been in a position. A barrage of Pakistani missiles and drones hurtled in the course of the skies. They had a well-defined vacation spot – army bases, civilian spaces and Amritsar’s sacred Golden Temple. But thankfully, all of them measurably did not hit their goals, because of India’s full-scale air defence preparedness.

Protecting civilian goals was once best precedence of the Indian defence forces. But protecting a spot of spiritual vital, the Golden Temple, wanted one thing extra. Some media reviews are circulating with recognize to the deployment of AD Guns within the Golden Temple. However, the Army clarified that no AD weapons or some other AD assets had been deployed inside the premises of Sri Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar. 

#WATCH | Amritsar, Punjab: Indian Army displays a demo of the way Indian Air Defence methods, together with the upgraded L-70 Air Defence Guns, stored the Golden Temple in Amritsar and towns of Punjab from Pakistani missile and drone assaults. pic.twitter.com/acej4SgL3v
— ANI (@ANI) May 19, 2025

The General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 15 Infantry Division, Major General Kartik C Seshadri, printed how he and his infantrymen did a task nicely completed.

“We had already anticipated that they would target religious places as the Pakistan Army did not have any legitimate targets. Given geographical location, the Golden Temple was the most vulnerable target,” he stated.

Accordingly, the Army pressed into motion “holistic air defence umbrella” across the holy website online that incorporated fashionable air defence methods akin to L-70 weapons and AKASH missile batteries.

Meant for shaking India, the drone and missile attack got here to retaliate India’s Operation Sindoor, which was once a precision strike introduced at the intervening evening of May 6-7. Indian managed and well-coordinated assaults focused terrorist infrastructures at 9 places in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. 

#WATCH | Amritsar, Punjab: Indian Army displays a demo of the way Indian Air Defence methods, together with AKASH missile device, stored the Golden Temple in Amritsar and towns of Punjab from Pakistani missile and drone assaults. pic.twitter.com/3HchX0yHJI
— ANI (@ANI) May 19, 2025

These assaults had been India’s loud and transparent reaction to the April 22 Pahalgam terror assault, which killed 26 civilians who had been each Indian and international vacationers.

Talking about India’s army offensive, Major General Seshadri stated, “Consequent to Pakistan Army-sponsored dastardly terrorist attack on innocent tourists, the nation’s anger under able leadership took the form of Operation Sindoor, under which befitting punitive strikes were carried out on exclusive terror targets.”

He stated 9 primary terror hubs had been hit – seven of which have been destroyed via the Army. “Of these, the Lashkar-e-Taiba headquarters at Muridke, near Lahore, and the Jaish-e-Mohammed headquarters at Bahawalpur were struck with absolute precision,” he stated.

He clarified India’s place. “We issued a statement – clarifying that we intentionally did not target any Pakistani military or civilian infrastructure,” he added.

#WATCH | Amritsar, Punjab: Indian Army displays a demo of the way Indian Air Defence methods, together with the upgraded L-70 Air Defence Guns, stored the Golden Temple in Amritsar and towns of Punjab from Pakistani missile and drone assaults. pic.twitter.com/acej4SgL3v
— ANI (@ANI) May 19, 2025

Pakistan spoke back as anticipated, however now not with infantrymen. It spoke back with drones and missiles, aiming to terrorise Indian civilians and hit spiritual puts.

“We were fully prepared and thwarted their plan. Our alert air defence gunners shot down all drones and missiles aimed at the Golden Temple. We did not allow even a scratch,” stated Major General Seshadri.

This was once some of the first cases when the spiritual website online got here underneath direct risk from coordinated aerial assaults.

Defence officers didn’t mince phrases. One of them stated that the Pakistan Army lacks the braveness or capacity to stand Indian forces immediately. “Hence, it uses terrorism as a national policy and resorts to unmanned aerial weapons launched from its own soil,” the officer stated.

#WATCH | Amritsar, Punjab: Major General Kartik C Seshadri, GOC, 15 Infantry Division says “Indian Army is a professional, righteous and responsible force which in spite of grave provocations, has always responded in a calibrated and measured manner. We target only terrorists in… https://t.co/AAJsOE4zqg pic.twitter.com/z95jbU24qK
— ANI (@ANI) May 19, 2025

He endured, “Drones and long-range missiles were launched. Indian military installations, civilian population centers, including innocent women and children, were also not spared. They even targeted our faith. Pakistan touched a new low.”

He emphasised that Golden Temple witnessed a “surfeit of drone and missile attacks, all thwarted by our Army air defence gunners”. 

#WATCH | Amrisar, Punjab: Soldiers of the Panther Division of Indian Army say “…We are representatives of the panther…We will enter and kill the enemy from within, now we don’t fear anyone. There is revenge in the mind, there is passion in the heart and pride in the eyes. To… pic.twitter.com/EwGljIqUS8
— ANI (@ANI) May 19, 2025

As the skies lit up with defence operations, locals close to the border stood with the Army. A farmer from a Punjab border village, Jasbir Singh stated, “Our Army is the pride of our nation. They protected us and the Golden Temple. We stood with them in the fields. They kept their promise.”

Meanwhile, infantrymen from the Panther Division expressed fierce choice. “We are representatives of the panther. We will enter and kill the enemy from within. We do not fear anyone. There is revenge in the mind, there is passion in the heart and pride in the eyes. To uproot terrorism, India has launched Operation Sindoor,” stated an officer.

The message is crystal transparent: India’s religion is not going to fall to missiles.