In war unproven claims and counter claims are quite common. Also in fog of war, it is sometimes possible that false or unverified news start to circulate. For example, on 27th Feb ISPR and Pak PM claimed to have captured 3 Indian pilots only to retract it hours later when they could only produce only 1 pilot.
SU 30 MKI is most modern and potent aircraft in indian Airforce inventory so a scalp will boost PAF morale.
The objective of Operation Swift Retort was to retaliate IAF strike on 26th Feb and salvage some honour.
Salvage some honor? So if enemy country's airforce carries out attacks on ur territory then honor is violated and it must be responded? Then why was there no response from India when PAF attacked Indian territory? According to ur own argument it would mean u have no honor.
The reality is that both India and Pak can carry out air attacks against each other at any time...either with stand off weapons...or where terrain(such as a mountainous area) allows to sneak in quite a distance without being detected or even in some areas where the radar coverage might be lacking. It's no amazing feat...and nothing can be done about it by either side...not in the short term anyways. What matters is how u respond to ur enemy's incursions...and we both know that only one side responded
PAF launched a large package of aircraft- F 16, Mirage and JF17. Mirage and JF 17 were to attempt attack against military installations while F16s were to give air cover and draw IAF CAPs to PAF dominated killing zones.
PAF will do whatever it must to get the job done...if IAF didn't expect it then it's their failure. I keep seeing Indians bringing it up over and over that PAF had a numerical advantage and what not...whatever happened to the previous showboating by u guys about IAF's numerical advantage? Moreover if India detected PAF jets on its radar then IAF should've roughly known how many PAF jets are incoming...they are not stealth jets. Why wasn't an appropriate number of IAF jets were scrambled to respond? If there wasn't a sufficient quantity of IAF jets present to respond in a timely manner(meaning they were too far away to get there in time) then why even bother to respond half heartedly? Ending up being called AMRAAM dodgers and telling Abhinandan to flow cold...should've let Abhinandan sip on his tea safe on base in India.
I have never seen any airforce respond to incursions by enemy jets...only to get up in the air and then bail once they see it's too many enemy jets for them to take on...does IAF really have to send it's pilots up to visually count?(rhetorical question)
PAF JF 17 and Mirage managed to drop weapons in vicinity on Indian military installations- whether targets were missed by design or PAF was forced to miss the target when challenged by IAF is a moot question.
They released videos...these were guided bombs...the second pilot in the PAF Mirages were guiding these bombs. If they had the time to guide them near the target(but not on it) then they also had enough time to guide it on to the target itself. The video footage of the bomb's guidance was made public along with google maps imagery to show exactly how it all happened(which is much more than what IAF has provided).
F16s fired (India claims 5–6) few AMRAAMs at Indian aircraft with 1 confirmed kill of Indian MiG21, incidentally PAF denied involvement of F16 and attributed kill to JF17 but was forced to come clean when India showed debris on AMRAAM to media.
No Pak was not forced to admit anything. Pak said that no F16s were used in the operation...which is entirely correct. NO F16 WAS USED IN THE
OPERATION...Operation Swift Retort involved the use of Mirages and JF17 to deliver the package...F16s weren't a part of it. F16s were carrying out CAPs and only got involved once IAF jets were airborne.
So far PAF has been caught deceiving twice: 1) IAF pilot in custody 2) Use of F16 and AMRAAMs
As for 1...
IAF pilot was in custody...not at all a lie. The only thing about the 2 pilots confusion was just a miscommunication. Abhinandan was captured and then transferred to a hospital...this was thought of as one in custody and one admitted to the hospital.
For 2...see above.
How about now u explain all the myriad of Indian lies?...all of which have been thoroughly debunked by neutral third party sources...even very pro India and anti Pak ppl like Christine Fair aren't willing to back India on such lies.
With no physical proof like SU 30 wreckage or any photo/video evidence, the claim of PAF is unverified and unfounded.
U mean just like Indian claim of shooting down an F16? At least PAF pilot is owning up to his shooting of an IAF Su30...Abhinandan has yet to publicly claim his.
In 21st century with mobile phones in every nook and corner of Kashmir it is impossible to hide an incident of such magnitude.
Yup...and yet there were no such mass funeral held for "300 terrorists" that were "killed" by IAF. Like u said...in this era of everyone having mobile phones it is impossible to hide such things. No such videos surfaced for that "destroyed building" either...that was supposed to be the target...
...as for Indian claim that Pak must have repaired it...no one recorded any videos of debris being transported out and construction material/workers going in.
In past, there has been instances where Pak made false claims like
- No involvement of army regulars in Kargil conflict
- News of liberation of Dhaka on 16th December 1971 was hidden from population of Pakistan with call to “War till Victory” on December 17th 1971 in national newspapers.
The only correct thing in ur post is ur username bcuz from what u wrote...it does seem u r drunk. I'm fascinated by how logic works only one way for u guys...anyways keep on being delusional...it's good for us.