The Minister of Defense, Khawaja Asif, touched on Saturday what he said they were “unlikely” and “comic” of the head of the Indian Air Force that the country had demolished five Pakistani combat planes and other military planes during the clashes in May.
Comments are the first statement of this type on the Indian side three months after their worst military conflict in decades with their neighbor. During the conflict, Pakistan said he knocked down five Indian planes in Aire-Aire combat on May 7, which later declared that figure like six. The general general general in India has also recognized that his forces suffered losses in the air, but denied having lost six planes.
Speaking in an event in the southern city of Bangalore, the head of Indian air, Marshal Ama Preet Singh, said: “We have at least five confirmed combatants killed and a large plane,” and added that the large plane, which could be a surveillance plane, was demolished at a distance of 300 kilometers.
He claimed that most of the Pakistani aircraft were demolished by the Russian S-400 manufacturing missile system of India. He cited electronic follow -up data such as confirmation of strikes.
Singh did not mention the type of combat planes that were demolished, but said that air attacks also reached an additional surveillance plane and “some F16 combatants” that were parked in hangars in two air bases in Sindh and Punjab. “This is actually ever registered by the largest air surface,” he insisted.
Responding to the statements in a position in X, the Minister of Defense said: “The late statements made by the head of the Indian Air Force regarding the alleged destruction of the Pakistani aircraft during the Sondoor operation are as unlikely as they do not have life.
“It is also Ionic How Senior Indian Military Officers Are Being Used As The Faces of Monumental Failure Caused By Strategic ShortSightedness of Indian Politicians. For Three Months, No Such Clos Briefings to The International Media, and Independent Observers Recorded Widespread Acknowledge of The Loss of Multiple Indian Aircraft, Rafales, by Sources Ranging From World Leaders, Senior Indian politicians to foreign intelligence evaluations. “
Asif said that “India did not hit or destroyed a single Pakistani plane,” and added that Pakistan took out six Indian aircraft, S400 air defense batteries and unmanned planes from India, while “quickly placed several Indian air bases.”
He added that the losses in the control line for the Indian Armed Forces were also “disproportionately heavier.”
“If the truth is in question, let both parties open the inventories of their airplanes to an independent verification, although we suspect that this would reveal the reality that India seeks to obscure. Wars are not won by falsehoods but by moral authority, national resolution and professional competence.
“Such comic narratives, created for internal political convenience, increase the serious risks of strategic calculation error in a nuclearized environment,” he warned.
The Defense Minister Itelo that each violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan would invite “a quick, safe and proportional response, and the responsibility of any resulting escalation will rest completely with strategically blind leaders who bet with the peace of South Asia for the fulguant political profits.”
The former envoy, Dr. Maleeha Lodhi said that the affirmation of the Indian air chief was “ridiculous”, and said he took “several months to tell the planes to make this ridiculous statement!”
Meanwhile, the spokesman of the Congress of India, Pawan Khera, said when asked about the matter: “The question we have after today’s information … when we had such a strong army and moved at that time under who of the pressure stopped the Sindoor operation?”
Pakistan, with the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) that mainly operates Chinese and F-16 manufacturing planes of the United States, has previously denied India to break down any plane during the struggles from May 7 to 10 among neighbors with nuclear weapons.
Nueva Delhi had previously stated that he had demolished “some airplanes.” The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has echoed the figure of “five airplanes” demolished during the military confrontation, although without specifying which job on the side he referred to.
The government of the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has faced the scathing criticisms of opposition parties for their lack of “political will of struggle” during May clashes and “failures” to avoid Pahalgam’s attack.
The May conflict was caused by the accusations of New Delhi against Islamabad, which were not evidence and strongly refuted by Pakistan, about a deadly attack in the pahalgama of occupied Kashmir. After the fight of May 7 and the TIT attacks per eye in the air bases, an American intervention was needed on May 10 for both parties to finally reach a fire.
France’s air chief, General Jerome Bellanger, said previously that he has seen evidence of the loss of three Indian fighters, including a rafale. The Indian Air Force has not commented on those statements.
Days after air combat, The Washington PostBased on the visual evidence analyzed by experts, he informed that at least two French -made Indian combat planes were demolished by the Pakistan Air Force.
According The wireThe defense of India attachment to Indonesia, the captain of the Navy of India, Shiv Kumar, while talking in a seminar in June, acknowledged that the PAF knocked down the Indian fighters.
During his presentation at the event, Kumar had recognized the loss of Indian airplanes. According to Kumar, Indian combat aircraft were “operating under strict political orders of the government to not point to Pakistani military facilities or air defense systems,” The wire reported.
“This self -imposed limitation by the Government was intended to avoid the scaling of conflicts in a nuclear environment,” added the exit, citing the Indian officer.
The intelligence failure of India was fundamental for the an hour’s air battle between Pakistan and India, which led to the fall of the Rafale aircraft by the J-10 combatants of the Pakistan Air Force that use PL-15s missiles, according to a report.
Reuters The interviews with two Indian officials and three of their Pakistani counterparts found that Rafale’s performance was not the key problem: central for its fall was a failure of Indian intelligence with respect to the range of the Missile PL-15 made by China fired by fighter J-10. China and Pakistan are the only countries that operate both J-10, known as vigorous dragons, and PL-15.
Defective intelligence gave the pilots Rafale a false sense of confidence that they were out of the Pakistani shot, which believed it was only about 150 km, Indian officials said, referring to the widely cited range of the PL-15 export variant.
“We ambush them,” said the PAF official, added that Islamabad made an electronic war assault on Delhi’s systems in an attempt to confuse Indian pilots. Indian officials dispute the effectiveness of these efforts.
“The Indians did not expect them to shoot them,” said Justin Bronk, an expert at Air War of the Royal United Services Institute of London. “And the PL-15 is clearly very capable in the long term.” The PL-15 that hit the rafale was triggered from about 200 km away, according to Pakistani officials, and even further according to Indian officials. That would do that among the most registered air-air attacks.
