The same non sense being peddled by certain people who are trying to be credible thereby lending credence to Pakistani Fanboy posts.
Anyone who knows how Army Commanders, Corps Commanders and GOCs move to forward locations, will be laughing their heads off reading this non-sense. Merely an attempt to drag forces to a level where every day they have to defend some absurd claim against them.
It is like Sameer Joshi, an ex-IAF pilot claiming no AWACS on station on 27 Feb 2019.
Welcome to the world where the idiot rules.
I agree. IAF tracked these guys getting airbirne from Multan and Sargodha and still did not scramble more fighters on CAP. Someone goofed up big time. Even the AWAC was not in station and was further down south. By the time it arrived at the proper station over eatern part of Jammu, close to China border, the dogfight was well on. It appears that the JF-17s which came from Skardu side were also picked up very late. It seems IAF was more tuned to defend Punjab airspace than Kashmir. But still the ground control intercept officers did a commandable job and whatever guys we had up in air also did a very good job as they did not allow them to get a firing solution. In air combat it is more important to deny the enemy his target than to actually shoot him down. One of the tactics of Mig-21 during cold war days was to bounce the enemy formations at supersonic speed from high altitude to make them drop their bombload and thus deny them the chance of hitting any target. Once you make the strike drop their load to save themselves to engage in air combat, you take out those many fighters from combat for 5-6 hrs. As that is the time they will need to return, rearm and come back again.What ever happened or Did not Happen on
Feb 26 And Feb 27 , IAF has lost its AURA
Of Invincibility and Over whelming supremacy that we were led to believe
Over the years
I wonder why did not IAF ever imagine this
Scenario of being stranded without a Firing Solution
They always knew the Maximum Range of
R 77 and Amraam C5
I agree. IAF tracked these guys getting airbirne from Multan and Sargodha and still did not scramble more fighters on CAP. Someone goofed up big time. Even the AWAC was not in station and was further down south. By the time it arrived at the proper station over eatern part of Jammu, close to China border, the dogfight was well on. It appears that the JF-17s which came from Skardu side were also picked up very late. It seems IAF was more tuned to defend Punjab airspace than Kashmir. But still the ground control intercept officers did a commandable job and whatever guys we had up in air also did a very good job as they did not allow them to get a firing solution. In air combat it is more important to deny the enemy his target than to actually shoot him down. One of the tactics of Mig-21 during cold war days was to bounce the enemy formations at supersonic speed from high altitude to make them drop their bombload and thus deny them the chance of hitting any target. Once you make the strike drop their load to save themselves to engage in air combat, you take out those many fighters from combat for 5-6 hrs. As that is the time they will need to return, rearm and come back again.
The thing I still not understand is what was IAF even thinking the next day? They go bomb someone and the enemy won't retaliate? Even a fool would have seen it coming. They even had the audacity to say our ROE was only to prevent their counter-attack. I truly feel all this was done for only elections. If it was any other country they would have escalated given Pakistan's economic situation.IAF was under the impression that the Answer to Bombing of Balakot would be a similar Bombing by PAF
WTF , you are dealing with the progeny of Zaid Hamid
The PAF' s biggest weapon is Amraam and their no 1 enemy is Su 30
The whole idea of 27 Feb was not to bomb our targets but to Get a Sukhoi 30
IAF failing to visualise this Ambush by Amraams is a big failure of their Scenario building and Contingency planning
The thing I still not understand is what was IAF even thinking the next day? They go bomb someone and the enemy won't retaliate? Even a fool would have seen it coming. They even had the audacity to say our ROE was only to prevent their counter-attack. I truly feel all this was done for only elections. If it was any other country they would have escalated given Pakistan's economic situation.
Nothings going to happen. IAF is out of the picture. Wait for 2023 again. We are back to ground skirmishes which both of them enjoy.Escalation would have caused casualties
That would have been suicidal for Modi
Remember how All the Anti Modi media
Was Shouting when Abhinandan was captured
Any way the IAF got a lot of time to make
New and Better plans
Pakistanis are also worried
They say that this Skirmish was like the
Stalemate of 1965 , BUT 1971 was when India took Its Real Revenge
IAF always believe on close combat tactics which did happen on 27th feb where Abhi took the PAF leader with R73 and IAF definitely aware of the range and the effectiveness of BVR missile that’s why no Point scored using BVR-AAM.SU 30 engage f16 for longer time after dodging these BVR-AAM but PAF did able gain the air dominance for sometime on 27th feb using multiple BVR-AAM ...it created a hot zone.we will fix this issue with new technology available to us.What ever happened or Did not Happen on
Feb 26 And Feb 27 , IAF has lost its AURA
Of Invincibility and Over whelming supremacy that we were led to believe
Over the years
I wonder why did not IAF ever imagine this
Scenario of being stranded without a Firing Solution
They always knew the Maximum Range of
R 77 and Amraam C5
What most of you have completely overlooked is that even the number two of Abhi evaded the AMRAAM. So it is not easy to shoot down a Bison.IAF always believe on close combat tactics which did happen on 27th feb where Abhi took the PAF leader with R73 and IAF definitely aware of the range and the effectiveness of BVR missile that’s why no Point scored using BVR-AAM.SU 30 engage f16 for longer time after dodging these BVR-AAM but PAF did able gain the air dominance for sometime on 27th feb using multiple BVR-AAM ...it created a hot zone.we will fix this issue with new technology available to us.
In a war if you cancel a knight with a pawn (f16 with mig21) then why not .we may see mig21 fight with f16 in future if IAF goes with the plan .
IAF always believe on close combat tactics which did happen on 27th feb where Abhi took the PAF leader with R73 and IAF definitely aware of the range and the effectiveness of BVR missile that’s why no Point scored using BVR-AAM.SU 30 engage f16 for longer time after dodging these BVR-AAM but PAF did able gain the air dominance for sometime on 27th feb using multiple BVR-AAM ...it created a hot zone.we will fix this issue with new technology available to us.
In a war if you cancel a knight with a pawn (f16 with mig21) then why not .we may see mig21 fight with f16 in future if IAF goes with the plan .