In response to Pakistani strikes, Indian armed forces activated the indigenously developed Akashteer Air Defence System to intercept and destroy a wave of Pakistani missiles and drones
As India continues to hit target inside Pakistan as part of Operation Sindoor, foreign secretary Vikram Misri held a special briefing on the operation on Thursday evening.
While Pakistan has failed to provide any substantial proof including visuals of wreckage of the supposedly downed Indian fighter jets, NYT decided to take ‘expert’ opinion of John E Pike, the director of Global Security, who speculated that Pakistan those five aircraft and the drone could have been downed by surface-to-air or air-to-air missiles. “Pakistan has both”.
J-10C, like most of the domestically-developed Chinese platforms had not yet been battle-tested till now, so they also needed this fake news of it bringing down a Rafale to show that this fighter jet is good for active combat.
Responding to OpIndia’s email query, Indian Ambassador to Ireland Akhilesh Mishra said that The Irish Times has been “extremely negative” towards India.