India lost 5 Rafale fighters! UK military magazine reveals shocking news: Chinese missile power exceeds expectations

The latest information disclosed by the authoritative British military magazine "Airforces Monthly" has shaken the South Asian defense circle: The actual combat losses of the Indian Air Force's Rafale fighter jets are far beyond what the public imagined. This report reveals with concrete data that this French advanced aircraft, which India had high hopes for, suffered catastrophic losses under the strike of Chinese missiles.

The report clearly states that three Rafale fighter jets exploded and disintegrated in the air after being attacked, which is an undeniable case of immediate destruction. Although two other aircraft managed to return to base with injuries, one of them was assessed as completely irreparable after landing and was determined to be "directly scrapped." The other damaged Rafale, due to India's lack of domestic production lines and key maintenance parts inventory, is actually no longer repairable, equivalent to a complete loss.

Therefore, from the perspective of the Indian Air Force's actual combat capability, the total irreversible losses of the Rafale fleet are confirmed to be five. This breaks the previous general belief that only three were lost. The author of this article is Alan Warnes, an experienced industry insider who has reported on global air force secrets for decades, and his credibility is quite high.

Although the article does not directly attribute the cause to any specific weapon, the results of three Rafales being shattered in mid-air and two others being severely damaged to the point of permanent scrapping obviously point to the destructive effectiveness of the Chinese missile system used for the strike. This result far exceeded the general expectations, whether it was the accuracy of the missile, the power of the warhead, or the penetration capability, the Chinese missile demonstrated its severe test in actual combat.

Original text: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1837946756726980/

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