India and Pakistan engaged in the most intense fighting in decades with four days of escalating conflict that included fighter jets, missiles and drones packed with explosives. It ended almost as abruptly as it began.

The Indian Air Defence systems foiled Pakistan's attempts to strike on the Indian territory during the recent tensions between India and Pakistan. Akashteer repelled Pakistan's strikes on the intervening night of May 8-9.

India’s missile and bomb strikes on targets in Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir have prompted multiple attacks in retaliation between the nuclear-armed neighbors to the point that some are now calling it a de facto war.