{"id":85229,"date":"2025-09-06T23:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=85229"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:46:07","slug":"paf-pilot-reveals-secret-mission-that-destroyed-indias-s-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/paf-pilot-reveals-secret-mission-that-destroyed-indias-s-400\/","title":{"rendered":"PAF pilot reveals secret mission that destroyed India&#8217;s S-400"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"394\">ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Air Force&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-secures-deal-to-sell-jf-17-block-iii-fighters-to-azerbaijan\/\"> JF-17 Thunder<\/a> added a new chapter to the war books, destroying India&#8217;s S-400 air defense system using hypersonic missiles in Adampur, and now a PAF pilot has shared the fascinating story months after the intense encounter.<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with Waseem Badami, Wing Commander Hammad Ibn Masood, the PAF officer credited with destroying India&#8217;s S-400 air defense system, shared details of the high-stakes mission that have never been heard before.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling the events of early May, Wing Commander Hammad said that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was extremely secretive about its counter-attacks. Only select members of the squad and the top leadership were privy to the details of the mission.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ur\">&#8220;\u0645\u06cc\u0631\u06cc \u0628\u06cc\u06af\u0645 \u06a9\u0648 \u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u067e\u062a\u0627 \u062a\u06be\u0627 \u0645\u06cc\u06ba \u06a9\u06cc\u0627 \u06a9\u0631 \u0686\u06a9\u0627 \u06c1\u0648\u06ba\u06d4\u06d4\u06d4&#8221;<br \/>\n\u0627\u06cc\u0633 400 \u062a\u0628\u0627\u06c1 \u06a9\u0631\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u06d2 \u0648\u0646\u06af \u06a9\u0645\u0627\u0646\u0688\u0631 \u062d\u0645\u0627\u062f \u0627\u0628\u0646 \u0645\u0633\u0639\u0648\u062f \u06a9\u06cc \u062f\u0644\u0686\u0633\u067e \u06af\u0641\u062a\u06af\u0648<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ARYNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ARYNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pyWmGEntND\">pic.twitter.com\/pyWmGEntND<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ARY NEWS (@ARYNEWSOFFICIAL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARYNEWSOFFICIAL\/status\/1964359781747208691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even my wife had no idea what I had done,&#8221; he said. Like many Pakistanis, his wife learned of the PAF operation&#8217;s success through congratulatory messages. When she asked him where he was during the mission, Hammad hid the details, saying: &#8220;We&#8217;ll talk about that later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The officer&#8217;s revelations shed light on the PAF&#8217;s discipline in maintaining strategic planning and operational secrecy among its pilots, even from their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Air Force&#8217;s JF-17 Thunder added a new chapter to the war books, destroying India&#8217;s S-400 air defense system using hypersonic missiles in Adampur, and now a PAF pilot has shared the fascinating story months after the intense encounter. In a conversation with Waseem Badami, Wing Commander Hammad Ibn Masood, the PAF officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":85230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31075],"class_list":["post-85229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-jf-17-thunder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85232,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85229\/revisions\/85232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}