Normally I won't tweet about Indian missions based on RUMINT or classified info but since this had its footprint on public internet (intentionally so?) This needs to be told to every one, specially since this "mission" brutally exposed Paxtan's so called air defence, thread 1/n

At around 11:16 AM, Indian OSINT community flagged a flight crossing the Indian air space. It was Indian Airforce Boeing 707-337, an old workhorse now probably used for ELINT. It was pretty unusual and everyone was concerned. 2/n

It is unusual for an IAF bird to enter the enemy territory with its transponder switched on. It not only crossed over to Pak over the shakargarh bulge but stayed in its airspace for around 10 minutes before switching off its transponders. 3/n

All of us who ever tracking the flight were very worried, discussing the possibilities and reasons behind the strange flight and disappearance but you know what... Viola! The plane appeared in Indian airspace after 35 minutes over Uttarakhand 4/n

So what happened? An Indian ELINT airplane went inside 100 kms in Pak territory, stayed there for 12-15 minutes, made a fool of their air defence completely and came back. So much so for world's greatest army and it's nation. Disclaimer - based on publicly available info 5/5