UNFOLDED: Operation Safed Sagar—How Air Warriors Fight in the Mountains
The orders will be dispatched after 20th September.
What do you do when the oldest rule in air combat changes sides?
On the night of 27 June 1999, six MiG-21s went into the Mushkoh valley in radio silence, launched by a man beside the runway with a green lamp, because the radios could not be trusted. They were flying a day fighter, at low level, in the dark, between mountains that reach eighteen thousand feet.
How?
Mountains impose rules. Six of them—air, space, height, sight, time, weight—and no air force has ever repealed one.
UNFOLDED: Operation Safed Sagar is the story of an air force discovering those rules under fire at Kargil: three aircraft lost in two days, and everything about how to fight rewritten inside a week.
It is also the story of Siachen. If dropping bombs onto a mountain is a hard problem, keeping humans alive on one is harder, and India has been solving it every flyable day since 1984.
Bombs go down. Life goes up. Both obey the same six rules.
| ISBN/SKU | 9789347590405 |
| Imprint | Fauji Yuva | The Browser |
| Language | English |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 224 |
| Year of Pub. | 2026 |
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