Satellite Images Show Pakistan Rebuilding Key Airbases Damaged in May 2025 Conflict
Pakistan rapidly reconstructs airbases hit by IAF strikes.
Fresh high-resolution satellite imagery has confirmed that Pakistan has quietly begun rebuilding and clearing critical military infrastructure at two key airbases heavily damaged by the Indian Air Force during the intense 88-hour conflict in May 2025, signalling Islamabad’s determination to restore operational capability months after Operation Sindoor.
At Sukkur Airbase in Sindh, believed to house Pakistan’s UAV fleet, the completely destroyed hangar struck by India in the pre-dawn hours of May 10 has now been fully demolished and the site levelled. Geo-intelligence expert Damien Symon told NDTV that debris clearance only began in October, suggesting prolonged safety assessments possibly due to hazardous ordnance remnants. While no new hangar has yet appeared, the adjacent untouched hangar remains operational.
Meanwhile, at the strategically vital PAF Nur Khan Base in Chaklala — just 10 km from Islamabad and home to VIP aircraft and command functions — the site where Indian missiles obliterated two special-purpose military vehicles and flattened surrounding buildings now shows a brand-new 20×25-metre structure. Remarkably, the fresh construction, built directly on the old foundation, features a different layout with two adjoining sections, indicating rapid replacement of lost command-and-control capability.
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These developments come seven months after India’s deepest strikes on Pakistani soil since 1971, executed in retaliation to Pakistani drone swarms and missile attacks on Indian airbases between May 8–10. The IAF targeted eleven Pakistani airbases including Nur Khan, Sukkur, Sargodha, Rafiqui and Jacobabad using Rafale-launched SCALP, Rampage and BrahMos missiles, inflicting significant damage just hours before Pakistan requested a ceasefire on the afternoon of May 10.
The swift reconstruction effort underscores Pakistan’s urgency to erase visible scars of the brief but fierce war that began with Indian strikes on nine terror camps in Punjab province and ended with a fragile truce. While India has maintained strategic silence on the extent of damage inflicted, the new satellite evidence confirms that at least two of the most symbolically and operationally important Pakistani bases are already in various stages of recovery.
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