At the height of last year’s hostilities following the Pahalgam terror attack, Pakistan responded to India’s Operation Sindoor with a wave of drone and missile strikes targeting Indian cities and military installations.
Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos targeted at least 26 across Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat. Among the weapons deployed was the Fatah-1 guided artillery rocket, which Pakistan’s military fired on May 10, 2025.
In an undated interview with a local Pakistani channel, an officer associated with the Fatah-1 operations claimed that the strikes successfully hit two Indian military targets — “Rajouri Airbase” and “Mamun Airbase.”
However, the two airbases do not exist.
While Rajouri is a district in Jammu and Kashmir and does not host any operational Indian Air Force airbase, Mamun is a military cantonment area near Pathankot, Punjab.
When asked by the anchor whether the Fatah-1 missiles had struck their intended targets, Captain Muneeb Zamal responded that both missions were executed successfully.
“We were assigned two targets, Rajouri Airbase and Mamun Airbase, and we successfully engaged them,” he said during the interview.
When further asked about the launch of the Fateh-1 missile and videos showing civilian presence in the area, the officer claimed that the presence of locals acted as a “confidence-building” factor for the personnel involved in the operation.
The remarks have since sparked widespread discussion online, with users mocking the non-existent military bases.
“Archaeologists, cartographers, Google Maps, and the Indian Air Force have launched a joint mission to locate legendary ‘Rajouri airbase and Mamun airbase’. If anyone knows the geolocation plz send it to govt officials,” one user posted on X.
Another post read, “Fateh-1 hits Rajouri and Mamun airbases so hard that they cease to even exist! Next Target: Atlantis?”
Under Operation Bunyan-un-Marsoos, Pakistan had claimed that it targeted India’s Udhampur Air Base, Pathankot Air Base and Adampur Air Base.
In the aftermath of the strikes, missile debris was recovered from fields in Sirsa in Haryana, as well as Barmer in Rajasthan and Jalandhar in Punjab, bringing the impact of the cross-border escalation to rural areas far from the frontlines.
Later, in September 2025, debris of a missile, thought to be a Fatah-1, was fished out of Srinagar’s Dal Lake.
There were also reports that Pakistan fired a Fatah-II surface-to-surface missile at a strategic Indian location, which was intercepted by air defence systems in Sirsa.
Source: India Today
