New Delhi, May 16 -- Akashteer, India's fully indigenous, automated Air Defence Control and Reporting System, which intercepted and neutralised every inbound projectile amid India-Pakistan hostilities, is no longer a concept confined to defence journals, but a sharp edge of India's air defence.

"In the dark skies, a new kind of warrior awakened. It did not roar like a fighter jet or flash like a missile. It listened. It calculated. It struck. This unseen wall stopped a barrage of missiles and drones on the night of May 9-10, when Pakistan launched its deadliest attack on Indian military and civilian areas," according to an official release.

While Pakistan relied on imported HQ-9 and HQ-16 systems that failed to detect and intercept Indi...