An Indian Defense aggregate has affirmed that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) demolished six combat aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) “only by the limitation given by political leadership so as not to attack the military establishment or its aerial defenses,” Indian news outlet, Indian Indian Indian The wire reported on Sunday.
Earlier this month, the PAF confirmed that six IAF aircraft were demolished late on the night of May 7, after India launched missiles in six Pakistani sites, even in Sialkot and Bahawalpur, as well as Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Three of the fallen fighters were Rafales de Dassault of French manufacture.
This military confrontation took place after New Delhi, without evidence, blames Islamabad for supporting the terrorists who killed 26 tourists in the pahalgama of Kashmir occupied in April, an accusation that Islamabad denied.
According The wireThe defense of India attachment to Indonesia, the captain of the Indian Navy, Shiv Kumar, while talking in a seminar in Indonesia last month, acknowledged that the PAF knocked down the Indian fighters.
During his presentation at the event, Kumar recognized the loss of Indian airplanes, although he said that “he may not agree [with an earlier Indonesian speaker’s claim] that we lost so many airplanes. ”
“After the loss, we changed our tactics and went to the military facilities. Therefore, we first achieved the suppression of enemy aerial defenses and then that is why all our attacks could easily pass using Brahmos missiles,” added the attachment of Indian defense, referring to Indian missile attacks in Pakistani’s bases on the night of May 9 and 10.
According to Kumar, the IAF combat aircraft were “operating under strict political orders of the government to not go 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. “It was possibly based on the premise that Pakistan’s army would not point to Indian combat planes that fly in Indian airspace, when India was not reaching any paquistani military objective.”
Kumar inferred that the restrictions imposed by New Delhi led to the loss of IAF aircraft since Pakistan “refused to impose such limitations.”
“The political instructions meant that IAF had to carry out their missions while deliberately avoided the most threatening enemy assets, which are generally prioritized in aerial campaigns to ensure aerial superiority,” The wire reported.
The wire He also reported that the Indian embassy in Yakarta said that Captain Kumar’s comments had been “taken from context” in a statement.
“We have seen media reports on a presentation made by the defense set in a seminar. His comments have been summoned out of context and media reports are a misrepresentation of the intention and the impulse of the presentation made by the speaker,” “. The wire wrote.
“The presentation transmitted that the Indian Armed Forces serve under civil political leadership, unlike other countries in our neighborhood,” the departure continued. “It was also explained that the objective of the Sndoor operation was to aim at the terrorist infrastructure, and the Indian response was not climbing.”