Kargil Air War

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Kargil Air War
Part of the Kargil War
Location of Kargil along the Line of Control in Kashmir
Date 3 May – 26 July 1999 (2 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Location Kargil district, Jammu and Kashmir (now Ladakh), India
Belligerents
India	Pakistan
Units involved
Indian Air Force No. 9 Squadron IAF	Pakistan Army Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps
Casualties and losses
1 Canberra damaged 1 Mig-21 shot down 1 Mig-27 shot down 1 Mi-17 shot down 5+ killed 1 captured	No aircraft lost

The Kargil Air War was fought between India and Pakistan during the Kargil War from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere along the line of control. In India, the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (Hindi: विजय, lit. 'Victory'), which was the codename of the Indian military operation in the region.^[a] The Indian Air Force acted jointly with the Indian Army to flush out the Pakistan Army and paramilitary troops from vacated Indian positions along the line of control,^[1] in what was designated as Operation Safed Sagar (ऑपरेशन सफेद सागर, lit. 'White Sea').

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