Video of a spinning rocket plummeting from the sky in northeastern Thailand has been widely shared online miscaptioned as showing an Israeli-made Indian drone downed in Pakistan amid escalating tensions between the South Asian neighbours.

One side in the India-Pakistan War invested heavily in drone capabilities over the last decade. The other did not.

Moreover, if even one Indian civilian aircraft is disrupted due to Pakistani military aggression, India could retaliate by enforcing a shutdown of Lahore Airport-Pakistan's busiest civilian air hub-in line with the Modi Doctrine of strategic escalation to secure deterrence.

India launched multiple Israeli-made Harop drones targeting Pakistan overnight and into Thursday, with one damaging a military site and wounding four soldiers, a Pakistani army spokesman said.

The persistent drone incursions represent acts of gross insubordination, exposing fractures deep within the Pakistani military's ranks., India News News - Times Now

India hit Pakistan with air strikes deep into the country, killing dozens, but Pakistan claimed to have shot down multiple Indian planes. (The details of that claim remain murky.) India accused Pakistan of a drone attack near the Kashmiri line of control,

Pakistan shot down 12 drones from India that violated its airspace, the military said on Thursday, a day after Indian strikes on multiple targets in the country fanned fears of a larger military conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Between May 8 and 9, Pakistan launched approximately 300 to 400 drones across 36 intrusion points from Leh to Sir Creek. All were neutralised by India's air defence.

A series of military strikes last week by India and Pakistan brought the nuclear-armed rivals closer to a broader war.

Turkish drones, extensively used by the Pakistani army during the recent limited conflict with India, came into prominence for the first ti.