Its quite amusing to get into the psyche of the Indian mindset. Despite such humiliation, somehow they have managed to salvage their ego with fantasy and completely overlooking their own failures.
That is true but DG ISPR had already warned India that expect a response from us very soon. Despite the warning, PAF launched its mission in broad daylight which surprised the IAF. The question you should be asking is why was the IAF caught with its pants down despite PAF warning them that we will come after you. This was incompetence at best.
That's one way to excuse the poor performance of the IAF. PAF strike packaged delivered its package successfully. The AMRAAM was launched by the F16's because the SU30MKI in that sector were getting in a position to threaten the strike package. Its a shame that the 'Raptor of Asia' had no firing solution against PAF's fast movers. This was a surprise for everyone because Indians had said that Pakistan had no answer to the MIGHTY SU30MKI, but in reality it turned out to be a dud just like many of us predicted.
I mean Pakistan did the same, in less then 24 hours and that too in broad day light after warning the Indians we were coming. All the Indians could do was look and in the end lost a jet of its own with the pilot captured. Such a humiliation for India considering Pakistan's Defence Budget is only a fraction of India's. SHAME SHAME SHAME
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