Windjammer
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Well stupidity is a double edge sword, since your country is well experienced in covering up misadventures by it's armed force personal, like the ram race by IN commanders or the sabotage at Gwallior, had any lost occurred at Pathankot, it would no doubt will be covered up. However, something like 26/11 gets more sympathy and attention. One wonders why the base in IOK housing MiG-29s wasn't selected since militants are already very active in that part.What an incredibly stupid statement. IAF aircraft being destroyed on the ground in this kind of attack would have been HUGELY significant no matter what aircraft it was- even if it was a glider! Terrorism by definition is about perception and eliciting a disproportionate response to the actions carried out. Does one conduct a CBA before carrying out an attack based on the intended target judging for the "quality" of the target? In 26/11 Pakistani terrorists killed 166 people, more people than that probably died that month on the roads in India but which created more (and lasting) outrage and attention?
Anyway, all of the assets you might consider more "worthy" of an attack by your proxies are deployed further away from the IB, it is no coincidence that these guys hit the closest airbase to where they infiltrated.