Recent reports suggest that Pakistan may have successfully targeted an S-400 system in India. A local Hindi news outlet, ‘India First‘, has identified an Indian S-400 operator who was reportedly killed during the latest conflict between India and Pakistan. However, there is a notable inconsistency: while Pakistan claims to have struck the S-400 in Indian Punjab, the operator is said to have been killed near the Line of Control (LoC) due to fire from Pakistani forces, according to information relayed to his family by the Indian military.
This raises suspicions, as it seems unlikely that India would have an S-400 positioned so close to the LoC that it could be targeted in such a manner. Additionally, there are conflicting reports regarding the operator’s affiliation, with some suggesting he was part of the Border Security Force (BSF), despite photographs showing him not in BSF uniform. Indian sources have also confirmed that he was indeed part of the army.
Video package from the same local Hindi news outlet where it also confirms that Mr Prasad was operating S-400
via @RiazChamkani1 pic.twitter.com/fB3IXiYwKP
— FJ (@Natsecjeff) May 13, 2025
A video segment from the same Hindi news outlet corroborates that the operator was involved with the S-400 system. Furthermore, it was reported that Army personnel Rambabu Kumar Singh, hailing from Siwan district in Bihar, was martyred late Monday evening. He was operating India’s air defense system, the S-400, when he was shot by the Pakistani army around 1:30 PM. Following his injury, he was taken to the hospital, where his family and the village learned of his martyrdom late that evening, leading to widespread grief and silence in the community.
BREAKING: Indian media reports the killing of soldier Rambabu Singh during Pakistan’s military strikes on Adampur Air Base. He was an operator of the S-400 air defense system. pic.twitter.com/Mp706TE47b
— Defence Pakistan (@Defence_PK99) May 13, 2025
Rambabu Singh, a soldier from Vasilpur village in the Hariharpur Panchayat of Barharia block in Siwan district, was the son of the late Ramvichar Singh, a former deputy chief of the same Panchayat. His brother, Akhilesh Singh, is a logo pilot in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, while his wife resides in Dhanbad, Jharkhand.
Subhash Chandra Sharma, Rambabu’s father-in-law, mentioned that he operated India’s S 400 air defense system. He reported for duty in Jammu and Kashmir on April 10. On Monday, around 1:30 PM, the Army Headquarters informed that he had been shot, and subsequently, it was confirmed that he had been killed.
His wife, Anjali Singh, has yet to be notified of his death. His father-in-law noted that although he was stationed in Jodhpur, he was deployed to Jammu and Kashmir due to escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, where he was killed. The day before his death, at around 10 AM, Rambabu spoke with Anjali and appeared to be in good health. He had been married for approximately four months.
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