Overview
- Tom Cooper reiterated this week in media interviews that India struck the Kirana Hills complex during May 2025’s Operation Sindoor.
- He points to locally shot videos of descending missile contrails and smoke at a Pakistan Air Force radar site he identifies as the 4091st Squadron.
- The Indian Air Force maintains it did not hit Kirana Hills, with senior officers publicly dismissing the videos and denying any such strike.
- Cooper argues the alleged attack signaled decisive capability and coincided with Islamabad’s outreach to Washington and New Delhi before a May 10 ceasefire request.
- Kirana Hills has been widely described in open sources as linked to Pakistan’s nuclear program, including subcritical tests and hardened underground facilities.