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The February 2019 Indian air strike near Balakot, Pakistan.
Narendra Modi genuinely said cloud and rain might help Indian aircraft avoid radar during the 2019 Balakot strike. Strong weather can degrade some radar or related detection systems, but public evidence does not show that cloud cover reliably hid the aircraft or materially determined the mission; the later political debate flattened that conditional technical question…

