Impressed with the emerging Indian narrative that now says that “yes PAF handed our butt to us and grounded our Air Force for two days but we quickly learned our lessons and were back on air on May 10th.”
The fact of the matter remains that IAF never recovered. This “back in business in two days” crap is total nonsense. A failed attempt at coping mechanism. Once the ceasefire talks were initiated, at the request of India per CNN, India launched thousands of drones and missiles into Pakistan. Some Rafales launched scalp cruise missiles from extreme ranges and were intercepted and the images of these interceptions are well known by now.
Even their military chief admitted that the IAF operated from extreme ranges on May 10 to avoid the wrath of PAF. This is why PAF were flying over Srinagar on May 10th with nothing to stop them, a fact admitted by the Indians themselves.
The fixation of few hits on PAF runways and hangar has to be exaggerated to equalize the loss of 6+1 plane loss by India. It serves no other purpose. The whole world knows it and the Indians know it too.
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