The Indian General Chauhan previously confirmed that his country’s combat planes were demolished by Pakistan, admitted to the “errors” of the IAF.
‘In the calm hours of midnight on May 6, a battle took place above the clouds that rewritten the rules of the modern air war. It was not marked by dog fights or dramatic barrels seen in past conflicts between the two residents of South Asia of the Archivide. On the other hand, the heavens about Pakistan and India became a silent battlefield of invisible forces: electromagnetic pulses, traffic beams, satellite interference and range missiles beyond the night that are cut all night.
This extract of a Sunrise The report describes the recent air clash between Pakistan and India, which has been described as a significant development in the regional air power constellation.
This military confrontation took place after New Delhi, without evidence, blames Islamabad for supporting the terrorists who killed 26 tourists in the occupied puppy pahalgama and launched a series of air attacks in different Pakistani cities.
In his response, the Pakistan Air Force eliminated six Indian aircraft, including three advanced Rafale Rafale, a SU-30MKI, a Mirage 2000 and another MiG-29 in 40 minutes. No pachystani jet crossed the border or dedicated himself to melee combat
The head of the Personnel of the Defense personnel of India, Anil Chauhan, the admission that the combat planes of his country were shot down by Pakistan during the climbing have been called “evening criticism of the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi” by an expert.
New Delhi’s combat aircraft were demolished by Pakistan Air Force on the night of May 6 to 7 in response to the night missile attacks of the Indian Air Force in six Pakistani sites, which included mosques in Bahawalpur, Muzaffrabad, Kotli, Muridke, as well as peoples in the Sialkot and Shakargar district.
In an interview with Bloomberg In the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore, General Chauhan had said: “I think the important thing is not that the jets are demolished, but why the jets were demolished.”
In response to a consultation of the presenter of a television program, he confirmed that Indian combat planes were shot down during the recent escalation between the two countries, claiming that the four -day conflict never approached the point of the nuclear war.
Talking with Dawn.com On the comments of the Indian General, Ejaz Haider, a senior resident member at the Safety, Strategy and Policy Research Center, said: “The Bloomberg The interview of the Chief of Defense of India seems to be an attempt at the Indian’s army to reject a policy by Hindutva’s political leadership to use the Pakistan card for national political reasons. “
He added that as a professional military leader, Gen Chauhan was aware of capacities and deficiencies and realized that India did not have an overwhelming advantage against Pakistan.
“It also understands that Narendra Modi’s policy is staircase and dangerous,” the analyst continued.
Haider said it was important to take into account how the Indian General transmitted his message. “He was asked if a plane was shot down. He could have avoided the question in saying that the fight implies losses, and India achieved his goals by surprising the goals within Pakistan.”
Haider recalled how the question was approached by the Director General of Air Operations of India, Ak Bharti Air Marshal.
Previously, the Armed Forces had diverted questions about the Indian airplanes that Pakistan knocked down. When heading to a press conference, the Marshal of Air Bharti said: “The losses are part of any combat scenario.” However, he said that all the Indian pilots “were back.”
“Instead, Chauhan talked about losses as a plural fighter and kept the plural in the follow -up question,” said Haider.
The Chief of Defense of India had also said that the Armed Forces quickly analyzed the “tactical errors”, remedied them and again point to Pakistan on May 8 and May 10.
“The good part is that we can understand the tactical error we committed, remedy it, rectify it and then implement it again after two days and fly all our planes again, pointing to long reach,” India today He quoted General Chauhan as saying.
Speaking about the admission of the Indian general that the IAF flew again its planes on May 10, after two days, Haider said: “This is a remarkable confession and could not be unnoticed.
“He continued to say that the IAF did not fly for two days, until May 10, when they rushed to the PAF commitment,” he added.
“This admission is significant because for two days, the Indian defenses did not have aerial coverage, and that allowed the PAF to send its combat planes on the 10 to eliminate the Indian S-400 [air defence system] Cheese board radar, ”he explained.
India had bought the Russian Air Defense System in an agreement of $ 5 billion in 2018, despite the imminent threat of US sanctions to countries that trade with Russia’s defense and intelligence sectors.
In addition, he explained that even on May 10, when India attacked the Pakistani bases, the Indian aircraft flew outside the PAF combat aircraft range after the “silent murders” that they had faced at the hands of the PAF on the night of May 6 to 7.
“He (Chauhan) has already been accused of going beyond his Remit by journalists affiliated with Hindutva, who have requested a disciplinary action against him,” he continued.
Haider added that it would be interesting to see how the professionalism of the Indian army against the BJP Hindutva policy develops.
Western military experts had also closely monitored the result of this aerial confrontation with a particular approach to how the Chinese weapons was tested by the battle for the Pakistani armed forces, reaching the top against the French manufacturing rafale, which is at the forefront of the NATO weapons.
Siemon Wezeman, principal researcher at the International Peace Research Institute of Stockholm to the British newspaper The guardian that “any state that produces or buy weapons is interested in seeing how the product does in real conflicts. Tests and exercises can say more about weapons capabilities, but the final test is often combat.”
Similarly, Andrew Small, a senior member based in Berlin in the German Marshall Fund, said that Pakistan-India air combat provided the weapon suppliers the opportunity to evaluate the performance of their weapons. In the case of Pakistan, the supplier was China and in the case of India, mainly Europe and Russia.
“It gives them the opportunity to evaluate their performance in much more complex and challenging conditions than usual, and with Pakistan, it is not just the combat jets themselves, it is about missiles, radar systems and the entire backbone of the technology of the Pakistani army, from electronic warfar capabilities to satellite systems,” Small said.
The former Foreign Minister and president of PPP, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, talking about the clash, told journalists on Tuesday that Pakistan could have knocked more Indian planes, but exercised a restriction during the response to the attack of New Delhi.
Bilawal, who currently leads a Pakistani diplomatic delegation to the United States, said: “Even the demolition of those six planes was Pakistan that showed restriction, 20 Indian planes were blocked by our planes,” and added that only those planes were attacked that had released their useful charge in civil objectives in Pakistan.
After the air battle of the night from May 6 to 7, Islamabad then intercepted drones sent by India on May 8 and after Tit attacks per eye in the air bases of the other from May 9 to 10, it took US intervention on May 10 on both sides to finally reach a high fire.
The United States Fire had stopped a week of record escalation between Pakistan and India, since the latter took a series of unprovoked military actions despite Islamabad’s call to a neutral investigation on India’s accusations about the attack of Pahalgama.
Phelothra evidence
Even before the confirmation of the General Indian General, there was a lot of evidence to establish the veracity of Pakistan’s claims, which were confirmed by different sources.
American and French officials had also previously confirmed that Pakistan knocked down an Indian plane with combat aircraft that acquired from China, CNN and Reuters reported at the beginning of the month.
CNN He cited a senior United States official, according to his evaluation, the Pakistani forces knocked down the plane during the air attacks of India inside Pakistan.
A high -ranking French intelligence officer also said CNN That Rafale combat plane operated by the Indian Air Force was shot down by Pakistan.
At the beginning of the month, the American newspaper The Washington Post He also verified the visual evidence that at least two French manufacturing Indian combat planes were demolished by the Pakistan Air Force.
The document based its findings on the analyzes of the former explosive artillery elimination technician of the US Army. UU. Trevor Ball, Etienne Marcuz, associate member of the Foundation for Strategic Research and expert in anonymous French air power.
“In a review of more than a dozen images and videos published online after the strikes, The post Verified debris consisting of at least two French manufacturing combat planes blown up by the Indian Air Force: a rafale and a 2000 Mirage ” The post reported.
Separately, Al Jazeera He reported on the morning of May 7, after the crash, that three combat planes had crashed in the Kashmir occupied by India.
Image of heading: The residents gather around the rubble of a fuel tank of an Indian plane Mirage 2000 that crashed in the Wuyan de Pampore area, about 15 km from Srinagar on May 7 – Reuters
