But India and Pakistan regularly kill each others soldiers on the LOC . No reason to pull punches.
I feel paf planned well by keeping the su30s out of the picture by launching the AMRAAMS early and then launched their air to ground missiles from the safety of their territory. Low risk.
It seems difficult to prevent a repeat as these missiles have a range of 50 to 100 km. If fired from the safety of your own territory, how does a opponent during peacetime, prevent their launch from deep inside a territory ?
During wartime ofcourse any enemy aircraft in the air, at any distance, will be tracked and treated as hostile.
My learning from the incidents was -
1. Indian mig21s didnt have encrypted communications , which is horrific in this day and age.
2. Abhinandan showed unprofessional behavior in crossing over , as per the then air chief, he crossed over in josh.
3. The Indian attack was more of a message and test than aimed at causing damage.
4. India didnt want escalation so all the official statements on the 26th of targeting only terrorist camps and not Pakistan army. Totally ameuterish as when you have bombed the territory of another country, you cant rely on their good intentions. You should be prepared for total war.
5. Pakistan wont retaliate strongly/ nonproportionally incase of future strikes. The Pakistani response was apologetic , ie we did not deliberately target the Indian camps. Contrast with India saying we deliberately targeted.
6. India is always reactive in defense matters.In 1962 procuring arms from usa during conflict with china. During kargil, buying Air to ground missiles from israel. Now buying encrypted radios for mig21 and long range air to air missiles. Only time India has planned was ofcourse in 1971.