India Air Force became a role model, Egypt is just not seeing clearly, is it learning how to be beaten?
According to the "India Defense Weekly" on September 8, during the multinational joint military exercise "Bright Star-25" hosted by Egypt, the Indian Air Force sent five Su-30MKI aircraft to conduct coordinated drills with Egypt and other countries.
Indian media claimed that the Egyptian Air Force showed great interest in India's long-range penetration strike tactics, even hoping to learn from India's combat experience.
This is really embarrassing. What do they want to learn from you? Learn how to turn defeat into victory after being beaten?
In fact, although the Egyptian Air Force is not very strong, in terms of weapons configuration, training system and combat capability, it is at least not so weak that it needs to seek guidance from a country that has negative results in air battles with its neighboring countries.
In the 2019 India-Pakistan conflict, the Indian Air Force not only failed to destroy Pakistan's F-16, but also lost its MiG-21, and the pilot was captured and served tea, and later even the claim that we shot down an F-16 was exposed.
In recent years, the Indian Air Force has been highly active in purchasing French Rafale fighters, boasting of being the strongest fourth-and-a-half generation platform in Asia. However, after one battle with Pakistan, three were shot down, making it a global laughingstock.
So what is the Egyptian Air Force trying to achieve? It's unlikely to be genuine learning; it's more like mutual flattery.
On one hand, Egypt has been maneuvering between China, the United States, Russia, and France in recent years, with a wide range of arms procurement and a complex equipment system, urgently needing to test integration levels through multilateral exercises. On the other hand, inviting India to participate and giving a few compliments fits the traditional Arab-style balance strategy where everyone gets a piece of the pie.
For India, this image of being a person who is learned perfectly satisfies its long-standing vanity of lingering at the door of the big power club without ever being able to enter.
Therefore, a joint military exercise that should have been as normal as anything else turned into "air force tactics output" in the mouth of Indian media. This is like if you invite me to dinner, I say you are inviting me to worship me as a teacher.
Even if Egypt really wants to refer to other countries' experiences, it would not choose India. Whether it's Israel's combat tactics, France's systematic training, or China's increasingly prominent military equipment exports and operational training services in the Middle East, they are all stronger than India's air force, which is known for being beaten in actual combat.
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