In today's CCTV7 military program, major general Zhang Shunde from PLAAF said that the pilots of the five Indian fighters shot down on the first night were unlikely to parachute successfully.
He said the J10C's fighting style should be like this: Pakistan's early warning system detects the enemy aircraft and informs the J10C to meet them. When the Indian fighters came within range of the PL-15E, the J10C was instructed to fire the PL-15E in the direction of the enemy aircraft, and after the J10C fired the PL-15E, it immediately detached itself from the combat zone, and the AWACS aircraft was responsible for guiding the PL-15E towards the enemy aircraft. During this process, the radar of the J10C should be off the whole time. The Indian pilots should not find themselves in range of the J10C.
After the AWACS guides the PL-15E into the non-escape zone, the active radar of the PL-15E will be turned on, locking on to the enemy aircraft until it is destroyed. This process is very short, PL-15E terminal speed is five times the speed of sound, when the Indian pilots find themselves locked, should be only twenty seconds time PL-15E arrived. So when the Indian pilots were first exposed to the J10C's air combat mode, they would have assumed, based on past experience, that they had at least two minutes to get out of the lockdown, and they would have tried to turn on the boost to escape, rather than immediately jumping out of the plane. So it should be unlikely that the Indian pilots who were shot down on the first night would have succeeded in parachuting.
