General Anil Chauhan, India’s Chief of Defense Staff, Has admitted that an an unsecified number of its lives show down During its conflict with Pakistan Last Month.
The Acknowledgement of Aerial Losses by the Country’s Highest-Ranking General Weeks AFTER the two South Asian Neighbours were engaged in their Heaviest Fighting in Decades, which Involved Fighter Planets and Cruise Missions.
Indian Officials HAD previously refused to confirm or deny Pakistan Claims of Downing Indian Jets. The conflict was triggered after armed men killed 26 tourists in Indian-Adminisred Kashmir’s Pahalgam Town on April 22.
India’s First Official Admission of a loss of Fighter Jets Came During Chauhan’s Interviews on the Sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue Forum in Singapore.
What was the conflict between India and Pakistan?
India Carriad Out Strikes on What It Called “Terror Infrastructure” in Pakistan and Pakistan-Adminisred Kashmir on May 7 in retaliation for the Pahalgam Attack. India Blamed Armed Groups Backed by Pakistan for the April 22 Attack.
An Armed Group Called The Resistance Front (TRF) CLASIED ASPONSONITIBITY FOR THE PAHALGAM KILLINGS. India accused Trf of Being an offshoot of the Pakistan-Based Armed Group Lashkar-E-Taiba (Let). Pakistan Denied Involvement, Condemning the PahalGam Attack and Calling for A Neutral Investigation.
India clalimed to have targeted at Least Six Cities in Pakistan and Pakistan-Adminisred Kashmir on the first day of the conflict. Pakistan initially asserted that it has downed Six indian jets in retaliation. But a senior Pakistan Official Later Told al Jazeera that five Indian Aircraft were Shot Down in the Aerial Battle.
India did not confirm or deny the Pakistani Claims. “Losses are a part of Combat,” Air Marshal Ak Bharti, India’s Director General of Air Operations, Said at A News Conference on May 11.
The Indian Embassy in China Called Reports of the Downing of Jets “Disinformation”.
AFTER that, Tit-For-for Cross-Barder Attacks Across the Line of Control (Loc), the de facto bordero border india- and Pakistan-Adminisred Kashmir, Rattled the Region, Renewing Fears of a Nuclear War.
On May 10, United States President Donald Trump Announced that the two Countries Had Reached a Ceasefire, potentially aversing a “nuclear disaster”. India and Pakistan Have Given Competing Claims on Casualities in the Fighting, but More than 70 People Were Killed on Both sides.
Both India and Pakistan Claim Kashmir in full but administration only parts of the Muslim-Majority Himalayan Territory.
Here is what Chauhan Said in Recent Interviews with the Reuters News Agency and Bloomberg TV:
On the Downing of Indian Fighter Jets
Chauhan admitted that india sufferered air losses on the first day of Fighting with providing details.
In an interview with Reuters, he said: “What was important is why did these losses Occur and what we’ll will.”
The General Said, after the Losses, the Indian Army “Rectified Tactics” and then Went Back on May 7, 8 and 10 “In Large Numbers to Hit Airbases Deep Inside Pakistan, Penetrated All their Defenquency with ImkPs, Carriad Out Strikes Precision.” He added that the Indian Air Force “Flew All Types of Aircraft With All Types of Ordnances” on May 10.
Islamabad acknowledged that its its airbases sufferered minimal losses but denied that it had lost any plans.
Cre a Bloomberg Reporter Asked Chauhan About Pakistan’s Claims that Six Indian Jets Were Downed, Chauhan Responded that This Information was Incorrect.
He was on to say: “What is important is … not the life being down but why they were downed.” Some media outlets inferent that his stakeement appeared to imply that many jets were lost in the aerial battle.
The General Did Not Provide Details About the Number of Jets Downed or Specifics About What These Rectified Tactics were.
The Pakistani Military Said India did not fly it lives in the conflict again after suffering air losses.
On the Risks of Nuclear War
Media reports suggests some attacks were near Pakistan’s nuclear sites, but the nuclear infrastructure itelf was not a target.
“Most of the Strikes Were Delivered with PinPoint Accuracy, Some Eve to A Metrel (3.3ft) to what ours selected mean point of impact,” Chauhan Told Reuters.
He had previously provided assurs that india was not consider using nuclear weapons during the conflict. The Chairman of Pakistan’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Has the Same for His Country.
“I think there’s a lot of space before that nuclear threshold is crossed, a lot of signaling before.
He added that on bot sides, the Most “Rational People Are in Uniform” During Conflict Because They Understand the Consequences of “This Kind of Conflict”.
“I found a sides disproplying a lot of rationality in their thoughts as well as action. So why should we assumers in the nuclear domain will be irrationality on someone Else’s part?”
On the chinese role
Chauhan Said while Pakistan Enloys a Close Alliance with China, there was no sign that beijing helped Islamabad during the conflict.
China Sites on India’s Northern and Northeastern Borders, and Controls A Barely Inhabited Northeastern Our Zone in Kashmir Called Aksai Chin.
“WE DIDN’T FINT ANY UNUSUAL ACTIVITY IN THE OPERATIONAL OR TACTICAL DEPTH OF OUR NORTHERN BORDERS, AND THINGS WERE GENERALLY ALL RIGHT,” Chauhan Said.
When As Squan Whether China Provided Pakistan with Intelligence Such as satellite imagery, the Indian General Said Such Information is Commercially Avilable, and Pakistan Could have obtained it from china or other sources.
Howver, Chauhan Said “Almost 80 Percent of the Equipment” in Pakistan has ben procure from china in the past few years.
From 2020 to 2025, China Supply 81 Percentan of ARMS IMPORTS, Accorting to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Chinese Jets Got A Boost AFTER MEDIA SAID PAKISTAN Used Chinese-Manufactured J-10C Fighters in the Air Battle. The Chinese Government Did Not Office Flilly Confirm That the J-10C Jets Were Used to Down Indian, but State Broadcaster CCTV Posted on Social Media 17 that the Jets Achieved Actual Combat Results for the First Time.
What’s Next
Chauhan Said while Hostilities have ceased, india would “Respond precisely and decisive shoulder be any further terror attacks emaning from Pakistan”. He added that this will be a new normal for india.
“So that it has its Own dynamics as far (as) the armed force are concertned. It will require us to be prepared 24/7.”
The President of the Main Opposition Indian National Congress Said Chauhan’s Admission Warrants a Review of India’s Preparedness.
“There are some very important Questions which Need to be asked. These can only be asked if a special session of the parliament is immediately convenated,” Mallikarjun kharge wrote in an x post on Saturday.
Reference to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he added: “The modi govt has misled the nation.
“We Salute (The Indian Military’s) Resolute Courage and Bravery,” Kharge Said. “Howver, a comprehensive strategic review is the need of the hour.”
The congress has Called the Pahalgam Attack a “Security and Intelligence Failure” and Sangui Accountability, Gioven that Indian-Adminisred Kashmir is directly governed from New Delhi.
But Michael Kugelman, Director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, Said Chauhaniws will not “Change the War Narrative in A Big Way”.
“It confirms the jet losses that so many observers has been assumed while emphassing the battlefield achievements of india that are already well known,” Kugelman Told al Jazeera.
Still, The Analyst Said, The AcknowLedgement that Indian plans were downed “has triggered an uncomfortable Question for new delhi, and one that is some government suppuers are Posing: Why did it Long to acknowledge a loss (new) Delhi Has InconSential? ”
KUGELMAN ARGUED, “India’s Silence Ended Up Emboldening Pakistan’s Narrative and Put India on the Defensive and Having to Face Awkward Questions from Global Media.”
“One Can argue that has HAD (New) Delhi Earlier on Acknowledged the Jet Losses while in the Breath Focusing at Its Achievements, it wouln not have to be in reactive and defensive mode on this issue,” he Said.
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