I am sorry to say this but that screenshot is most definitely edited!
That screenshot is of an article by a news agency called Pune Times Mirror.
Here is the link to the original article :-
A frontline Sukhoi-30MKI of the Indian Air Force (IAF), one of the Russian-origin combat jets, crashed barely a couple of kilometres from a village on the city outskirts on Tuesday afternoon, with th
punemirror.com
Now if we open the article, we will see that this so called supposed M-88 wreckage is nowhere to be seen. Rather we can see the MKI's AL-31 engine wreck.
Don't believe me? Have a look.
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There was a Su-30, MKI crash on 13th December 2011, which received media coverage by a lot of news agencies, including Pune Times Mirror
(Whose Link has been posted above).
Su-30MKI uses two Saturn AL-31 engines. Here is what those look like.
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You can compare the both images yourself. The picture of the engine in that screenshot looks nothing like the AL-31 so this was definitely not a crashed Su-30MKI.
I hope this dispels this screenshot that Indians are circulating on the internet.
Someone has clearly taken the original screenshot of the Pune Times Mirror and edited this Alleged M-88 (
It could very well be an M-88 engine or maybe some kind of a very convincing propoganda by our enemy) onto it to prove that this is an old image from way back in 2011 but now we know that this is not the case. Incase you wondering - There is no other article by the Pune Times Mirror where they covered this crash, this is the only one (
whose link I have posted).
During the 27th February 2019 Aerial Skirmish, I still vaguely remember how Indians were claiming the engine wreckage of the downed Mig-21 was of the alleged F-16 we shot down.
Friends, I am not insinuating that a Rafale was shot down and I am in no way trying to favor the narrative of our enemy (
The enemy we are dealing with specialises in spreading propaganda to downplay and hide it's losses) but we need to analyse the losses and kills on both sides of the conflict in a rational and unbiased manner.
Remember this "
Sach kithna bhi kadwa ho, who anth mai sach hi rahega, jhoot nahi aur sachai ki duniya mai raho, nahi jhoot ke"
Let's not be like Pakistanis, let's not stoop to their degree of lies and deceit.