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Just to paraphrase the facts. The local indian media carried the interview of one of the AVM of Indian airforce in which he claimed following things
* Original target was Bhawalpur Seminary of JEM. But due to high collateral damage, they changed the target last miniute
* On 26 Night when Indian strike package flew from the airbase, Indian AWAC in the air picked up large swarm of Pakistani fighter jets patrolling over Islamabad and AJK Sector
* Indians Decided to distract Pakistani Airforce immediately by sending the same size of Balakot Strike Package to two different sectors to divert their attention so Balakot package can sneak in and do the strike
* We know from Pakistani DGISPR as well as from Indians that Indian send two strike packages in Bhawalpur sector and one more sector which Distracted Pakistani airforce
* Indians Re-routed their strike Package through a long route over Punjab and they refueled their airplanes as well on the way to Kashmir Sector
*So the reason why the Balakot Strike Package wasnt detected immediately because of the trajectory it took. Mainland India, Punjab and then Kashmir.
* DGISPR Admitted as much they intruded 6-7 NM inside Pakistan which is 10 KM roughly. While Pakistani Airforce was successfully distracted, they sneak into Kashmir Sector and Released the payload and intruded Pakistani Airspace but the PAF CAP by that time was alerted to intercept them and IAF returned back
* One of the Mirages Failed to release one of that SOW which were to record the Balakot strike like H-Weapon but That SOW malfunctioned to release from Mirage
So All in All, 26 FEB exposed one thing of PAF very badly. It can't handle Multiple intrusions at the same time.
Its the other way around, the IAF of today can make a mess of even the best PGM system and run away in panic without verifying whether the objective was neutralized or not. OTOH, the PAF despite being outnumbered, maintained better surveillance and kept them in check. We are talking about minutes/ seconds, not hours.