Oki let's analyse the situation rationally nd keeping emotional quotient aside..
There has been three instances of contesting claims of material loses in bhatinda, akhnoor nd pampore..
In akhnoor there was a video shot by a netizen claiming aircraft firing flares nd chaffs to evade incoming missile but failed.
Now what i hv understood is PAF relied heavily on HQ9b nd hq16 ADS To overwhelm IAF attacking vectors.. they must hv completly emptied their ADS magzine to deter IAF.. thus multiple volley of sams were launched at a single fighter.
Whatever may the PAF can claim but no chinese jets were airborne nd bvraams were used as many here are claiming.. if not we would hv got spent PL15e nd amraams bvraams instead we got spent HQ9b sams in rajsthan.
Now what does this skirmish means?
It shows the vulnerability of 4th gen vectors against a long range ADS.. nd u can't employ full spectrum attack without doing SEAD nd DEAD.. however IAF infront of daunting challenge did achieve it's target.. to be honest I feared worst but IAF performed much better.
Nd the same lessons were learnt by russian airforce during russoukrn war where numerically nd quantitativly superior russian airforce was deterred by Ukraine by employing tactical nd strategic ADS..
Defeat of Russian air power in Ukraine raises hard questions for IAF. In the 1st of a 3-part series, ThePrint investigates lessons from Ukraine war for IAF’s equipment & doctrines.
theprint.in
So even while PAF employing their full spectrum ADS they couldn't deter IAF from wrecking havoc inside paxtan..
Nd we came achieved all our objectives while attacking a nuclear nation across 9 targets with minimum loses against multiple SAM launches.
Now the table have been turned.. nd if PAF retaliate it won't go unscathed nd will incur multiple loses coz we hv more dangerous strategic ADS with S400 nd MRSAM covering deep inside paxtani airspace.
THIS IS AN ERA OF AIR DENIAL.
Even during recent air exercise where IAF stimulated strike resulted in 80% loses infront of S400 sudarshan.
The IAF carried out the exercise in a theatre where the force deployed one of its own fighter aircraft as ‘enemy aggressor planes’ in real life and were ‘tracked and targeted’ by the S-400 air defence system.
www.indiatoday.in
So keep calm nd don't resort to dhoti shivering.. analyse situation rationally.. don't jump up nd down with every claims nd counter claims.
I seriously predict that PAF will chicken out of fight nd will ask their army to attack us instead.