Indian media brag about destroying several advanced Pakistani equipment: F-16 and AWACS were shot down?
India has announced its achievements! Indian defense media summarized that during the "Sindhu Vikram" operation, Pakistan's 4 F-16D aircraft, 1 Saab-2000 "Eye in the Sky" airborne early warning and control aircraft, 1 Il-78 tanker aircraft, 6 Turkish drones (TB-2), 1 "Hercules" transport aircraft, one set of HQ-9 air defense system, and 2 mobile command centers were destroyed by India. Indian media described it as a great victory.
To be honest, to give an account to the domestic audience, Indian media is really not afraid of international jokes. Everyone knows that in the Indo-Pakistani conflict, the United States locked the F-16s at the first time. We don't know if the Indian military hit the American aircraft with saliva. If the F-16 aircraft of the United States was shot down, would the U.S. side not know about it? Up to now, only Indian media has announced this shocking "achievement".
However, there is still some restraint in Indian media's report on these achievements. That is, Indian media did not explicitly write about shooting down the J-10C. This is somewhat unexpected. Maybe Indian media knows that fabricating such lies would easily be exposed, as Pakistan could refute them by showing the number of their aircraft. Therefore, Indian media passed up the opportunity to claim shooting down the J-10C on paper.
Although Indian media's announcement of these achievements is full of self-hypnosis, self-praise, and turning mourning into joy, it does have some benefits. That is, India can use this "victory" to handle the situation face-savingly without escalating the conflict between India and Pakistan. If India cannot "win" in time, who knows what measures India would take to save face. Here, we congratulate India on its "great victory"!

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