India, May 16 -- As Pakistan launched its deadliest attack on Indian military and civilian areas on the night of May 9 and 10, Akashteer, India's advanced air defence system, emerged as a silent warrior that detected, tracked and neutralised a barrage of missiles and drones.

"It did not roar like a fighter jet or flash like a missile. It listened. It calculated. It struck. This invisible shield, Akashteer, is no longer a concept confined to defence journals," the defence ministry said in a statement.

Akashteer is India's fully indigenous and automated Air Defence Control and Reporting System, designed to intercept and neutralise incoming aerial threats with precision.

What stood between the incoming projectiles and their intended targe...