At least you have accepted you are no expert. To be honest I have not seen any here. All I see is conjuncture.
Well I don't think we would be lucky to have people from defense circles actively talking in such forums, so our experts will be enthusiasts, who are research scholars perhaps or know people who know things...and believe me, there are some decent folks here. Unfortunately, quantity here is killing the quality....
Simple reason, according to my understanding is that they did not fire because they were Jammed and also locked on, they decided to save themselves rather than fight. Hence stories of Su 35 trying to avoid Aim -120.
Umm..well disagree...Attackers will always have the benefit and i understand that MKI's were on defensive, however they were able to defeat AMRAAM's, doesn't suggest they were jammed...both things don't make sense, atleast to me.
Those who fought were shoot down by PAF (2).
Doesn't make sense again...from your version what i get is that MKI's ran for cover because they were jammed however Mig 21 went for fight? Also unless IAF/PAF show any proofs of second jet being down, we can only say 1 MIG 21 went down...If at all, circumstantial evidence points towards PAF loosing a jet. Again this is purely from your DGP ISPR statements. Initial statement was 2 Indian jets down, One Pilot capture, 2 on the lookout. Followed by 2 pilots captured, one in custody and other in hospital and hours later your President also claiming about Indian Pilot
s in custody...so it sounds very fishy that for hours, there was confusion among Pakistani official version, as to how many pilots they got. Having said that, for lack of solid proofs, we can only claim 1 Mig 21 shot down and 1 IAF chopper(though more likely by a friendly fire than technical glitch we initially thought)
This is the short of it.
Because Indians failed miserably to cause any damage to PAF, due to super performance of PAF's EW capabilities, the Indians wants to try something different like Meteors.
Comon man...how will Meteors protect Indian fighters from Jamming? Meteor is being preferred for its better range..PAF fighters will still deploy countermeasures to defeat missile...and how come this superior PAF's EW capabilities were somehow missing all the action a day prior? Please understand, there are many things we don't know...always a good idea to explore and ask, then believing the official versions...A food for thought, would you agree that your side is more secretive when it comes to defence forces as compared to their counterparts. If you do then it is logical to conclude, you may have to dig a bit harder.
SU 35 cannot be used for Western Technological hardware, that's only left Mirage 2000 to be equipped with Meteors. Tejas' are not inducted in any great numbers, secondly they are still going further trials for another year+, there was no question of arming them at present, Israeli or no Israeli radar.
You don't negotiate once everything is ready...b/w its been more than a year, Tejas has successfully fired BVR missiles. Anyways, as claimed earlier, for now only Mirage 2000 is a candidate for Meteor.
Well your MEA used ambiguous terms like 'disengagement' whatever it means to give leeway for Modi to save face. How many times did Indian officials travelled to China? And how many Chinese went to India? Until today MEA cannot confirm where is your downed drone nor admitting who shot it down. So where is the F-16 you downed?
Disengagement is a ambiguous term? Well only to minds full of nonsense...i am no scholar in English either however a dictionary might help you...b/w since you army is already there in Doklam, please check with them, if weather has finally improved there, so that they can start road construction there... now shall we concentrate on topic in hand?
Notice how the Indian media is silently avoiding the F-16 topic now. Remember how Modi wished to have Rafael so things wouldn't have turned out like this? Lol
Indian media is avoiding this topic?? Man we have general elections here...i know it is a foreign concept to you, however atleast try to come up with better logic/reasoning to prove your POV, no?
I can help with second bold part here...as per initial plans, we would have started adding Rafael's by 2015, which would mean almost couple of squadrons by now...would that have changed this engagements with PAF, hell yes. Anyone with an iota of brain would say, all else same, with couple squadrons of RAFAEL in the mix would have given IAF lot of edge...not sure, why it is so difficult to understand?
