Operation Dwarka Cheeky Pakistan celebrates Victory Day by killing a cow in India
Operation Dwarka
During 'Operation Dwarka', the Pakistani Navy fired 50 shells within 4 minutes, 40 did not burst. These shells fell between the railway station and a temple. In this incident, only one cow died and ...
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After midnight on September 7, 1965, five Pakistani vandals came to the city of Dwarka, a city of Indian temples, just 5.8 nautical miles away and started firing. Exactly one week before this incident, the Pakistan Army had launched an offensive military operation across the international border under the name of Operation Grand Slam. India and Pakistan were then officially at war and the Pakistan Navy was now in a fighting mood.
Standing parallel to the coast, a Pakistani warship adorned with old World War II fleets fired 50 shells off the coast of Gujarat that night. Named 'Operation Dwarka' by the Pakistan Navy, the aim was to destroy the radar station that helped India monitor the Navy's activities in the Arabian Sea. The Pak Navy bombardment continued for four minutes. The Pakistan Army returned to Karachi for fear of an air strike by the Indian Air Force at Jamnagar.
According to the Navy team that went to the spot the next morning, the shells fired by Pakistan fell on the soft ground of the railway station and the temple and damaged the guest house and a steam engine. Only one cow, which was around it at the time of the attack, died in the incident. The damage was not great, as 40 of the 50 bullets fired did not explode.
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Indian Navy historians have called it a riotous raid. There was no radar station in Dwarka but such a claim was a story told by an enthusiastic navy. The Pakistan Navy said the operation succeeded in most of its four-point motives, one being to bring the Indian Navy unit out of its submarine PNS Ghazi for an attack, the other to destroy the radar station, to demoralize the Indian Army. And the Indian Air Force had to be diverted from the north. The Pakistan Army celebrates September 8 as Naval Day.
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But Dwarka was completely insecure that night. And that's the weird twist in this story. On September 2, the Indian Navy sent INS Talwar to monitor Okha to warn the Pakistani army of advancing. The INS sword, found just five years ago in Great Britain, was one of the most modern warships in any Asian navy. It had two 4.5-inch guns that could destroy a ton of steel and heavy explosives in a distance of 16 kilometers per minute. The warship also had other weapons, including submarine destroyers and anti-aircraft guns.
Operation Dwarka
Talwar had to stop at Okha, just 30 km north of Dwarka, after an engine problem. It taped the transmission of the Pakistan Navy and at around 10 pm, after realizing that the target of the Pak Navy was the same, started action on it. The officer on the sword reported that the ship's 4.5-inch guns and radar controlling the firing were fully prepared for battle.
The sword did not advance to battle. He may have been reluctant to confront the Pakistani fleet because the Navy's hands were tied due to a strange order from the Ministry of Defense in the South Block. In early September, an additional Secretary in the Ministry of Defense, in a note sent to Navy Chief Vice Admiral BS Soman, said, We don't have to start, unless we are forced to respond to an offensive by the Pakistani military. '
The government did not want to escalate the conflict. This restraint was exactly like the Sino-Indian war of 1962, in which Prime Minister Nehru made the fatal decision not to deploy a much better Indian Air Force. But even with this strange instruction from the government, it does not make sense for INS Talwar and its commander VA Dhareshwar not to take action. Many Indian naval officers had expressed displeasure over this. In 'War in the Indian Ocean', Vice Admiral MK Roy cites the court-martial of Admiral Sir John Bang of the Royal Navy, who was sentenced for failing to take appropriate action against the French fleet during the siege of Minorca.
Admiral Byng was stationed at the quarterdeck of HSS Monarch in Portsmouth in 1757. Vice Admiral Roy does not recommend such action in the Indian context, but he says, "But it should never be forgotten that it is the essential duty of an officer stationed at sea to bring the enemy into the battlefield."
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Operation Dwarka
Vice Admiral Krishna, the commander of the Eastern Navy in the 1971 war with Pakistan, said in his report, one of our ships was in Okha. It is unfortunate that he could not participate in the fight by getting into the water. Even though one vote was against the Navy taking part in the war, but no government can blame a warship for taking action in the event of an attack on it. The contempt of our national honor is not a joke and we cannot laugh at them saying, 'Pakistani army could kill only one cow'. At least a memorial should be built in memory of the 'unknown cow' who was killed in a fight with the Pakistani Navy.
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According to the official history of the Indian Army's victory over the transition, Talwar had to stay in Okha because it needed to be repaired as its condensers had leakage problems, causing a serious waste problem in the boiler feed. A former crew of INS Talwar recently told me that the problem was difficult, but it was not that it could not be fixed. At least Talwar could fire on Pakistani warships from the port with its guns.
The Talwar incident could not be forgotten soon. This was realized six years later in the 1971 battle, where Vice Admiral Roy and Krishna played key roles. The Indian Army had acquired small missile-fast attack ships from Soviet Russia for coastal raids. These 'missile boats' were being brought on large warships and were launched near Karachi during the war in December 1971.
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Used in two separate attacks, Trident and Python, it is considered the world's most successful use of anti-ship missiles. They sank Pakistani Navy destroyers, a minesweeper, a warship tanker, three merchant ships and destroyed the Karachi-based oil tanks. Operation Dwarka and the dreaded past of a dead cow were finally buried.
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