Forgive me but I stopped reading after the first line, any timeline you give is obviously from Indian sources and much of it made up from flimsey evidence at best, outright lies at worst.
Best to go to neutral sources, non Indian and non Pakistani. All of whom seem to support the Pakistani narrative.
Let's simply look at what actual EVIDENCE we have.
1) A wreckage of a AMRAAM, not a whole missile but a fragment, that was found extremely quickly in very mountanious terrain by India. This missile either exploded into tiny bits and was found by a miracle or was emmbeded into an IAF plane or at a crash site. No answers from IAF on this.
2) IAF Air Defence radar was so confused that it shot down a MI-17. The official explanation was that the IFF was off. This indicates that Indian Air Defence radar could not identify it anyway and that Indian AEW aircraft were not able to communicate it's location either.
3) 3 seperate videos showing Indian Brigade HQs targeted, then all three aiming systems deliberately all moved the cross hairs to approx 2 km right of the target. All three did the exact same thing as around the exact same time. This is on video. PAF stated this was deliberate, India states all three missed. I will leave you to judge.
4) MIG-21 wreckage and pilot captured with 4 missiles intact. This proves that no firing solution by the MIG-21
5) A media video interview of an IAF air defence controller in which she admits that heavy jamming led to severe communication between IAF controllers and IAF aircraft. Safe to say that this jamming was not limited to just the MIG-21s (which were also carrying the EL-8222 pod).
6) Statements by the IAF ACM claiming the outcome "would have been different" had IAF had Meteors and Rafales, if that is not a damning inductment of the SU-30/R-77 combo I do not know what it. No such statement on aircraft types, missiles or outcomes was ever given by the PAF ACM.
A non Pakistani and non Indian sources gives an excellent account below, Alan Warnes is Editor in Chief of Air Forces Monthly and covered the PAF for many years (which naturally makes him a victim of much hatred by Indians on social media).
Bits I can qoute also are
" The IAF is already talking about upgrading the radars of its Su-30MKIs with an active electronically scanned array (AESA) to provide increased situational awareness. Longer-term, the IAF will operate the Rafale and the Meteor, perhaps the best BVR air-to-air missile in the world. "
"The air battle saw five of the IAF’s agile MiG-21bisUPG Bisons of No 51 Squadron from Srinigar AFS being scrambled. They should have been working with the Su-30MKIs and their more powerful N011M Bars passive electronically scanned array (PESA) radars. The Flankers were expected to data-link their longer-range aerial picture to the Bisons operating ahead of them, allowing the MiGs to keep their radars switched off to evade detection by PAF radars.
However, the degraded communications meant the Bisons weren’t receiving anything from the Sukhois or the air defence controller."
“Monitoring of the radios by the PAF revealed the pilot of a Su-30MKI had called ‘Bingo’ [low on fuel] only 25 minutes into the mission, even though it can fly up to two hours. Around the same time, two Mirage 2000s also exited the active zone after claiming their air intercept radars were broken. That was strange, because PAF F-16s had picked up telltale transmission ‘chirps’ of the apparently serviceable Mirage 2000 radar on their threat-warning systems a short time earlier.”
"Former Indian Army officer Pravin Sawhney, now an independent military analyst, was critical of the IAF: “The PAF had better electronic warfare jammers and, as a result, the IAF could not communicate. If you do not win the battle in the electromagnetic spectrum, you will never win the war.”
One year after Pakistan and India almost went to war, Alan Warnes...
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