Did Indian Navy Chief Say 'We Will Complain to US’ if Pakistan Attacks? No!

The claim is false, as the video of DGNO AN Pramod has been altered using Artificial Intelligence (AI).

An altered video is being shared to falsely claim that the Indian Navy's DGNO AN Pramod said that India will 'complain to the USA and President Donald Trump' if Pakistan attacks again.

(Source: Facebook/Altered by The Quint)

A video showing the Indian Navy's Director General of Naval Operations (DGNO) AN Pramod speaking at a press conference is being shared on social media.

What is the claim: The video is being shared to claim that the DGNO said, "This time if Pakistan dare take any action and Pakistan knows it, what we are going to do. We will complain against Pakistan to the United States of America and President Donald Trump like we did earlier in Operation Sindoor (sic)."

An archived version of this post can be seen here.

(Source: Facebook/Screenshot)

(Archived versions of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here, here, and here.)

Is it true?: No, the video has been altered using Artificial Intelligence (AI).

• The clip is taken from a press conference on 11 May, when DGNO AN Pramod answered a media query about the Navy targeting Pakistan.

How do we know?: We ran a search using the beginning of DGNO Pramod's statement as keywords — "This time if Pakistan dare take any action" — to look for a longer version of the video.

• It led us to an Instagram post by The Times of India, dated 11 May 2025, which showed the DGNO's full statement.

• Here, he can be heard saying, "This time if Pakistan dare take any action, and Pakistan knows it, what we are going to do. That's all."

• We also saw that several news organisations had shared this clip, which can be seen here, here, and here, making it evident that he did not mention the USA or its President Donald Trump.

• The full video of the press conference held by all three wings of the Indian Armed Forces on 11 May, which was a special briefing on Operation Sindoor, was published by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) on their YouTube channel.

• At the 58:42-minute mark, a journalist asks the DGNO about the Indian Navy's role and some clarity about which fighter aircrafts were downed by the Indian Forces.

• He starts by saying that he will answer the first part of the question and then say "a few sentences and leave it for your imagination (sic)."

"First of all, as I mentioned, we have quantitative and qualitative edge to deliver a massive blow to our adversary and we completely dominate the maritime front. Indian Navy's action is a part of the escalation ladder mechanism which we have worked out amongst three services. This time if Pakistan dare take any action, and Pakistan knows it, what we are going to do. That's all."

DGNO AN Pramod during a press conference on 11 May

Placed within its context, the video again shows that he did not say that India would "complain" to the US or Trump if Pakistan attacked again.

Is it AI?: Since the DGNO's facial movements did not match the words he purportedly said, we ran the viral claim through Hive Moderation's AI generated content detector.

• Their tool gave the video an aggregate score of 93.6 percent, noting that it was "likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content."

• In a split examination of the audio and video elements, it noted a 99 percent change of the video being AI-generated and a zero percent chance that the audio was NOT AI-generated.

Their tool found that the video contained AI-generated content.

(Source: Hive Moderation/Screenshot)

Conclusion: A video of the Indian Navy's DGNO AN Pramod, altered using AI, is being shared to falsely claim that he said that India would "complain to the USA and President Donald Trump" if Pakistan attacked again.

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