After three more days of heavy fighting, the bold plan paid off, and 18 Grenadiers resumed the attack on the invaders from two directions. ""To ascertain whether they were friendly, I gave a call, 'All aircraft to turn 180 degrees', I saw that all except two turned around and obeyed my instructions. Unit after army unit had been pushed up the rugged heights with no clear instructions of the task at hand. After what seemed like hours of fierce fighting, Tiger Top ‘’was ours.’’ Portions of Tiger Hill were still occupied by the enemy.
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It came at the end of a three-month-long battle that was initially marred by utter confusion. You will also find a gallery dedicated to Manoj Pandey a brave Jawan who lost his life in the battle of Kargil and was awarded with Param Vir Chakra. ""We were firing at the six-seven white tents on Tiger Hill with one laser guided bomb each. "We heard many panic-stricken radio intercepts to their HQ for supplies and sensed that we had broken their logistics backbone; so vital for their sustenance in that area. ) "We had the electronics in … "In the absence of radar cover in that area as well as compatible IFF equipment on the differing types of aircraft flying in that area, it was good luck and some clear thinking on our part that we did not shoot down our own aircraft in the fog of war," says the pilot who flew extensively during the operations. I heard about the first drop of laser guided bombs from Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar, who was then a wing commander posted at the Gwalior air base (which was home to the Mirages) looking after flight safety aspects.Namby sir, as he is known in the IAF, was a very experienced pilot on the Mirage 2000 with almost 2,000 hours on the aircraft and he had had the privilege to fly and test many other types of aeroplanes as an experimental test pilot.He was augmented to the 'Battle Axes' squadron for flying duties as soon as it moved to Adampur for the operations. The entire screen went white showing the impact on the tents. In Part-2 of this Livefist interview with IAF combart veteran Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar, he provides the most detailed account so far about … Tiger Hill was one of the epicentres of the Kargil war and became a strategic point of defence since it was located at a height of more than 16,000 ft giving a clear view of the headquarters of 56 Brigade, the main Indian unit in the area. ( Searching for the target with bare eyes was like searching for the needle in the haystack but due to the technology, we had a clear picture of the seven tents perched against the rocky background on our scopes. Two young, courageous officers, Lt Balwan and Capt Sachin Nimbalkar were at the very time, making repeated attempts to dislodge the intruders from Tiger Top. In Delhi, then defence minister George Fernandes announced grandly that the ‘infiltrators’ would be evicted in 48 hours. They were still fifty metres short of the peak when the message was conveyed to Brigade Headquarters: they are short of the Top. 18 Grenadiers seized the 16,700-foot (5,062 m) Tiger Hill Top on the morning of 8 July. Craning their necks, they saw six of the Pakistani intruders. The troops of 18 Grenadiers--tasked to capture the top--were still short of the pinnacle. "I had the target in sight, on my scope well before we reached the weapon release line. "I did not spot the tiny shoulder launched missile, but Monish did see it climb towards us and thereafter fall away as we were outside its envelope. (The author wrote a book on Kargil and tweets as @shammybaweja).Indian Army soldiers at a gun post during the Kargil war on September 20, 1998 . The tricolour was flapping in the icy wind.’’As the ministers rejoiced, the troops came back, to mourn their dead colleagues and collapse in exhaustion.
The capture of Tiger Hill signaled India’s victory in the short but sharp war between India and Pakistan over the icy heights of Kargil. The troops had struggled all night to make their way up a slope, using ropes to haul themselves forward, their guns tied to their backs.
""Takeoff was planned at 0630 hours from Adampur with escorts being provided by 2 more Mirage 2000s from Ambala". ""The 30 seconds of bomb flight seemed like eternity and then whoosh! They had to innovate and they did.Read it in the words of the officer, “We picked up the bodies of ten Pakistani intruders we had just killed and used them as human shields. It … 34.4844 75.6584. Nimbalkar – codenamed Sholapur after the Maharashtra town he came from – led the assult. His men were able to reach the Top with minimum noise and the silence of their assault had taken the enemy by surprise. Kargil, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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