From my understanding, their initial target was obviously not our airbases and today, they have mentioned the same in the presser. I am more worried about their confidence and their will to attack us from brahmos which they also accepted in presser.
I don't know whether our subsonic cruise missiles are working or not. May be they are too expensive or may be they got intercepted.
Overall, there is a clear understanding of the situation. We need long range precision weapons. India has many such systems and also want to induct Israeli lora system. Chances of brahmos and rampage attack on us is quite high and they are clearly very fast. I believe we were caught off guard just like we didn't expect Indian drones.
My assessment is clear. Without long range hypersonic precision strike missiles, Pakistan can't win. It can only delay. Our airbases should be our redline. Our previous doctrine related to nuclear strikes on India in case of an attack on airbases has been challenged. Without airbase, there is no chance of survival.
We need new system to defend our airbases like c-ram, other such systems to target incoming cruise missiles. India upgraded software of brahmos because it identified the bug that allowed soft kills from our side. Our job is to destroy their airbases to create some kind of parity. Unfortunately, their air defence layer is working properly. Indigenous systems are protecting them.
This airbase hits is not a light issue . Obviously attitude of the country is different. We think we destroyed their jets and won the war. We probably won the war but at a very maximum cost. Civilians died, I mean from kids to women and mosques almost razed to the ground which is shaadaat. All this boils my blood and I thought why Pakistan didn't do the same with the Indians? May be Pakistan was unable to do that or may be civilian life doesn't matter anymore. In any way, such huge strikes from India show a sign of weakness among our own air defense layer. It also shows defensive mindset. It also shows some kind of respect for civilians of India and we repeated many times that we will not target their civilians which is hilarious.
I mean all this is unacceptable but it happened and it's past. I hope they will listen to former retired servicemen of paf, many of them suggested air strikes on Indian airbases if things escalate next time. Let's see if we have done anything to save our airbases and to save our people because iaf is traditionally inferior when it comes to bvr engagement but better at air to ground ops.
Obviously criticism is to identify mistake. Members are annoyed here over my thoughts. But obviously nobody wants to talk about our own weakness but let's hope that armed forces will save airbase next time. A penetrating hypersonic missiles is the need of the time.
Also Indian presser today mentioned that they could have destroyed one airbase completely if their intention was to target nearby bases. This is clearly a threat and shows the mindset of iaf. This is what I was saying. They will try to destroy entire airbase next time with the combination of same weapons. They identified our weakness. They identified their own weakness as well which is brahmos soft kills( software update) and new bvr( r-37m). They are very intelligent and their assessment is based on real events.
