India, June 12 -- Precision weapons, such as ones used by India against Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, have rendered geographical barriers "almost meaningless" and "altered the relationship between distance and vulnerability," a top Indian Air Force officer said on Wednesday.

"Today, precision-guided munitions like Scalp and BrahMos (missiles) have rendered geographical barriers almost meaningless as strikes with beyond visual range air-to-air missiles and supersonic air-to-ground missiles have become commonplace," Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, chief of integrated defence staff, said at a seminar on surveillance and electro-optics.

"The lessons from Operation Sindoor have reinforced what military strategists have long understood but p...