GumNaam
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negative on all counts. india purposefully sent the brahmos trailing near a well known air corridor that is used by domestic and intl flights. there were 3 domestic flights, one saudi airline and one Qatari airline using that route at the time of the incident. they were banking on the thought that Pakistan would be too hesitant to try an interception given commercial flights in the area but they proven wrong. PAF was NOT caught off guard, they monitored the brahmos from the point of launch when it was still inside india, made sure that the point of interception was clear of both airlines in the air and population on the ground and then shot it down. as for escalating, I think Pakistan will retaliate at the time and place of its choosing. right now, OIC FM summit is about to take place with the Chinese FM also attending the summit. It will be payback time after the summit. india thinks that (and rightly so) that this summit is far too important for Pakistan to escalate things and after the summit, things would've cooled down. well they are wrong. Pakistan will retaliate in the same coin but six times over as per our doctrine. Probably not Baburs but the rather, long range H4 SOW weapons that have a fairly long 120km range. These are probably much smaller than the Babur or brahmos and will thus be harder to detect. Pakistan will remain quiet just as india is quiet right now.1. It was an actual missile attack a deliberate attempt. If it was "test went wrong" scenario, they wouldn't have removed the flag paint and other markings from Brahmos at first place.
2. It traveled to its maximum distance of 260 Km
3. They wanted to test waters
4. Now they know that Pakistan wouldn't retaliate although they were expecting two projectiles at their territory
5. They held the escalation ladder
6. PAF just remained monitoring
7. We were caught off guard
8. Our vulnerabilities are exposed.
9. Be ready for more such attacks in future.
10. We miss Asif Ghafoor - Iftikhar is such a homeopathic dude
being the slithery little worms that the indians are, they chose this time when a major multinational summit is about to take place. Well it's not gonna stop us. Pakistan will retaliate at the time and place of its choosing.
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