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On 14 February 2019, a convoy of security personnel traversing the Jammu Srinagar National Highway at Lethpora in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, India, was attacked by a suicide bomber, resulting in the death of 40 Indian Central Reserve Police Force personnel. The Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for the bombing, and in retaliation for that attack Mirage-2000 fighter jets of the Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out air strikes against what India asserted was a militant training base in Pakistan's north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the early morning hours of 26 February 2019: Shortly afterwards, a video clip purportedly capturing a portion of that air strike was being circulated via social media: As is often the case, what was presented on the internet as a leaked military video was in fact a scene from a video wargame/simulator. In this instance the clip was extracted from a promotion posted to YouTube back in 2015 for ARMA 2, a military simulation video game developed and published by Bohemia Interactive:
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