‘Attack On Muntho Dhalo Changed The Theatre Of War In Kargil’

Twenty years ago, at the peak of the Kargil operations, the Indian Air Force notched up a major success when it destroyed the main Pakistani logistics base at Muntho Dhalo that was set up on encroached Indian territory in Ladakh. As Air Marshal R Nambiar, who was a Wing Commander then, told Bharat Shakti’s Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, that was for the first time an IAF aircraft (Mirage 2000) did surveillance of the area, detected the enemy’s presence, attacked it with and also did bomb damage assessment.