On your side. Yes.
They were not dumb bombs but SOWs. Understand the difference. The latter has a large operating range envelope. H4 SOWs have 120 kms range. Now, just for reference, have drawn the air distance from Naushera to Awantipore Airbase's midpoint.
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Feel is quite different from facts. Know precisely the picture and the Pilot in Command of Phalcon on our side whose platform was tracking PAF ACs moving in. That is why I keep saying that those claiming IAF AWACS was not airborne and was 'scrambled' have no clue of what they are talking (I know the precise time for 'hot start' of Phalcons as also time for them to reach the altitude required be effectively deployed for the type of coverage that exists with us). Similarly, on your side, from the map above, you yourself can see the logic falls flat over choice of weapon and target selected.
Mind you I am not saying they did not drop the weapon where they intended, only that the primary target was not reachable thanks to jamming from IAF and only the secondary could be targeted and that was ineffective due to failure of weapons to arm themselves. It met the mission objectives? Yes, in a away, as they could deploy weapon on secondary targets. Did it convey the message needed? Nope. Did PAF want to convey the message? Only to Pakistani
Awaam. And a bit for IAF, only in so far that they too have capability ... which was found short in retrospective analysis.
Mind you AMRAAMs were used against Su-30 in the hope of downing one, which was rather futile. So when PAF was not hesistant in targeting Su-30MKIs within Indian air space, what makes you think SOWs were without fuze?
You do not use any real time satellite imagery ...
As for the SAM, nope, you only speculated. Not even IAF knew for certain, except for those who were standing right at Srinagar AFB.
Except for exactly 03 members here, who have met me in Bagalore Air Show, you along with anyone else, have no clue as to how I would be knowing these things