All I have to say about the jet crashes is that it is pure delusion to expect to strike targets within enemy territory without conducting proper SEAD/DEAD and get away with it with no consequences. Whether it was IAF, some MEA babu or even leadorji himself will be clear in due time (whether it will take months or decades is anyone's guess). Jets did go down on May 7th. This is the price you pay for having the audacity to not only be the ones initiating the offensive sortie but also trying to restrict your attacks only to terrorist camps, thinking everything would be fine and dandy.
Once this delusion and self imposed constraint was broken, the only losses on Indian side were civilian and jawan casualties due to the shelling and the debris of downed drones falling on civilians. Thanks to the DEAD on May 8th and 9th, we were bombing Paki air force stations in broad daylight with no Paki response to show for it. Mistakes were made and they were rectified. Quickly.
If this had escalated into a longer war, India would've made every single airport in a 300-400 km range inoperational and the PAF would've been forced to operate from as far back as Quetta.
Air Vice Marshal is not ISPR..
This is the same idiot who claimed that PAF had the capability to intercept hypersonic missiles while the IAF targeted his hangars, runways and trailer based commands. Also probably the same guy who claimed that the PAF had destroyed a S-400 radar/launcher/whatever else while showing a grainy picture which looked more homologous with a JAV from 1990. Perhaps you also like his academic discourse on physical topics like centre of gravity given you think he is reliable?
The figure is certainly not 6-0 when you have a squadron leader and a bunch of technicians being packed in boxes after a hangar was bombed. Unless you think they were all gathering in for a namaz or were trying to pop the cherry of a goat in a fucking hangar, lmao.
It's unclear because it didn't happen.
Modi would be running and shouting about it in rallies if it happened .
Talking about opponent's losses would also raise even more questions on self losses. There are a bunch of other things that happened in Operation Sindoor that he doesn't vomit out in rallies. The strike on Kirana hills, lobbing missiles at Paki air force stations, for example. As far as I understand, the guy has only talked about establishing a deterrence, a new normal where terrorist attacks will now be considered an act of war and the whole "blood and water cannot flow together". He also showed up at the air force station/army base (don't remember correctly) where the S-400 regiment was based out of to give a speech following the ceasefire but he did not comment on that either.
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