ISRAEL’S BARAK-8 AND HARPY DRONES USED IN INDIA’S OP SINDOOR AGAINST PAKISTAN, SAYS NETANYAHU

Thu 07 August 2025:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recognized India’s use of Israeli-supplied weapons, including the jointly developed Barak-8 missile with India’s Defence Research Development Organisation and HARPY drones, in its military operation, Operation Sindoor, launched in response to the Pahalgam terror attack.

“The things we provided before worked very well on the field… we develop our weapons in the field and they are battle-tested,” the Israel Prime Minister said Thursday, as he unveiled his plan to increase military strikes on Gaza to eliminate Hamas. “They worked fine and we have a pretty solid foundation.”

Israel supported India’s strikes. Kobbi Shoshani, the Consul General in Mumbai said it was “essential” to send a strong message to the terrorists. “That (Op Sindoor) was an action of self-defence, and I’m very proud of this operation.”

The Indian military used Barak missiles and HARPY drones, in addition an impressive array of domestically manufactured weapons systems, to repel waves of Pak missiles over a nearly 100-hour period starting May 7. The Russian-made S-400 missile defence sytem was also used.

The HARPY is designed to attack radar systems and is optimised to operate in a ‘suppression of enemy air defences’, or SEAD, role. It carries a high-explosive warhead and has a special radar that can autonomously seek and strike radiation-emitting, high-value targets.

Specifically, it can track and eliminate targets in a designated area; it does this by locating frequencies and then strike from almost any direction, whether shallow or steep dive profiles.

The HARPY operates in deep-strike, day-or-night missions for up to nine hours.

This is a long-range, surface-to-air missile defence system developed jointly by Israel and India, and is designed to defend against multiple airborne threats, including enemy aircraft.

The special features include 360-degree coverage and the ability to engage multiple targets simultaneously. The Barak missile system can be deployed on ground and on ships.

It uses an active radar to track and intercept threats, and has an operational range of 100km.

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Major Defence Supplier For India

Israel is among India’s largest supplier of weapons and weapons systems, a trade that has been largely unaffected by that country’s war on Gaza, sources told news agency Reuters last year.

India has imported military hardware worth $2.9 billion from Israel over the last decade, including radars, drones, and missiles. Tel Aviv has ensured a steady supply of weapons to Delhi.

In fact, Israel is the fourth largest supplier of military hardware to India over the last decade; the other three are Russia ($21.8 billion), France ($5.2 billion), and the US ($4.5 billion).

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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