I don't see Al-Jazira /CNN reporting this side of the story?
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India News: The political war of words over IAF’s air strikes on a JeM camp in Balakot escalated on Sunday, with PM Modi attacking Congress and other opposition ptimesofindia.indiatimes.com
Nice effort by Reuters to compile all that info and keep it simple oh well i hope things have calmed down but
Thing is after Pakistan's retaliation downing of their jet and capture of their pilot it sent a huge shockwave in our neighborhood and to calm their public authorities had to lie we were almost on the verge of war and people losing all the morale at such a crucial time would've been devastating so they came up with this as morale boosting measure. Anyway their whole argument was based on two things wreckage of fighter jet which they claimed was PAF F16 (turns out it was their own downed MIG 21) and the parts of AMRAAM which only hints that an F16 may have been used.IAF, they claimed to have downed a PAF F-16
With Block III coming up and now with it's first kill under it's belt i think JF 17's prospects of export in future are looking good!Egypt has shown interest in acquiring the jf-17. Here is also a recent picture of a Saudi F-15 pilot flight testing a PAF JF-17 Thunder.
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On previous occasion of India - Pakistan military skirmishes in 1999.
Pakistan shotdown 2 IAF fighter jets and one of the fighter pilot was captured alive.
India refused to accept his pilot name 'Kambampati Nachiketa' as an Indian national. India stated this to UN.
Fighter pilot Nachiketa was handed back to Indian govt. in secret as per Indian requests, in hope to improve ties with India.
Here you are back to square of 1, exactly after 20 years.
2 X jF-17 in action over Kashmir, ON 27th Feb. 2019.
One of them shot down mig-21 Bison and one shot down Su-30MKI
Wow Im actually stunned. IAF is in miserable situation from jets crashing every now and then to pilots get captured.
What if in case of real confrontation! I am afraid Pakistan is going to inflict major harm on India.
Like it happened in history, IAF is already not flying.
Pakistan on the other hand hit 6 targets (only supply depots) today morning, in followup of which those IAF fighter jets were shot down by Pakistani fighter pilots.
Pakistan used jF-17 for it's mission.
I don't expect any escalation to the point of no return.
Only problem for Pakistan is that people living right next to Pakistan border are friendly to Pakistan, while Indian army is hiding exactly among civilians, who hate Indian army.