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The first picture of F-35 meeting a J-20 over SCS has emerged.

Yes, I remember that they'd to disable power to the AD battery. If this news is true, we're dealing with a declared nuclear power that 'can' lose command and control of an entire battery in one go. I cannot imagine the implications of this scenario.

So, my initial assessment of it about being air-launched could be wrong as per what I recently found out. But the rest of the point stands, also the report in Bloomberg is talking about IAF authorities taking power out of the system in order to disable further launches. If true, this points to...

Sure.

This doesn’t seem like the Pakistani version of J10CE.

You haven’t understood what I wrote.

Okay, yes, my pov is strictly Air Force centric :) I’m still guessing the coordinates given weren’t really for an actual target but obscured, imitating a real target. Rafiqui from where the missile hit was basically 20 seconds away given the missile flight profile.

I’d explain this a bit. To my understanding if this was an ORI, that means the mission selected included obscure coordinates (Mian Channu lies in exact direction of Rafiqui, so mission would validate parameters). But which part of Rafiqui is to be targeted (it’s a big base)? In order to keep...

Grade A Bullshit! There could be a million reasons why AD didn’t interdict the incoming missile including the biggest being that there were civil airliners in the same corridor, less than 100 km apart - one at almost the same height. I am fairly sure no one at our end wanted what the Indians...

PAF showing serious love for J10C, don't remember a promotional video for even Block 52s.

Already shared, whatever I found out. https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/indian-brahmos-missle-crashes-in-mian-channo.737243/post-13625765

As per an Indian Naval Commander, conventional warheads are maintained under C2. While missiles are under tactical authority.

One of the things .. that might come out of the inquiry, which they might want to keep a lid on for the time being, is that air launched version of Brahmos doesn’t have a kill switch. There’s nothing else that explains the Indian side to not kill the missile before it crossed the IB. That’s...

Well, feel free to go through the record of sharing stuff. Take it or leave it. =)

1. It was an air launched version of Brahmos. 2. It was a simulated exercise by IAF, with Rafiqui AFB as a potential target (Mian Channu is in line with Rafiqui by 20 seconds at Mach 3, it was used to simply simulate Rafiqui as its target). 3. IAF was conducting what is considered an ORI, an...

So, as per this ex-Indian naval commander, it's the warheads that are under C2 control but the cruise missiles themselves are under tactical control? This is quite something, if true.

Agreed. It’d have been hard to convey the message the system was airborne. And it barely gave them 6 mins. Regardless, fairly sure that a contact was made. Else I don’t see a reason for PAF to call off its retaliation package.

DG ISPR specifically mentioned DGMOs not talking. That doesn’t mean a contact was not made. When DG ISPR mentioned PAF undertaking tactical posturing decisions while tracking the missile, I believe this is exactly what’s meant.

Indian newspapers have reported that several hotline calls were made, across multiple levels of military and gov to convey that this was an accident before the missile landed in Pak. There have been direct contact between Indian NSA and Pakistani intel agency heads as well. So, I'd consider...

From what I have gleaned so far, a retaliatory strike was ready - accident or not, it's the hotline calls that saved the day. A lot depends on the inquiry and then subsequent details shared with Pakistanis, I hope they do revisit the events of the day and alter SOPs, so as not to allow the...