After a day of silence, Indian media finally found a justification for the crash of the "Tejas" fighter jet.
On the 22nd, the Indian "Defense Research" website published an article, urging everyone not to focus on this "Tejas" crash, but rather to see the improvement in India's air force combat capabilities brought by the "Tejas" fighter jet and the battle victories it has achieved.
Additionally, Indian media also emphasized that plane crashes are not unique to India. The U.S. F-16 "Fighting Falcon" fighter jet has already crashed over 600 times, but why is no one questioning its aerial dominance?
How should we put this...
Theoretically, the argument made by Indian media does make sense. It is indeed common for fighter jets to crash due to bird strikes or sudden engine failures. However, this logic does not apply to India's "Tejas" fighter jet.
Because when other countries' aircraft crash, it proves that their pilots have been maintaining high-intensity flight training. But the crash of India's "Tejas" fighter jet, which took thirty years to develop and even the Indian Navy and Air Force look down upon, can only indicate that there was a design flaw from the beginning.
Last year, when the Indian military boasted that the "Tejas" fighter jet had a "safety flight record of more than 10,000 sorties" and a "23-year service record with zero accidents," we had already said that maintaining a long-term zero-accident record for a fighter jet is actually very simple: just don't let the fighter jet take off, and no accident will occur.
Then, right after the Indian military made these claims, a "Tejas" fighter jet directly crashed in front of Modi...
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