New Delhi: A year after Pakistan outgunned and outnumbered the Indian Air Force on 27 February through “Ops Swift Retort”, not much has changed on the ground.
Pakistan was armed with better fighter planes, Beyond Visual Range air-to-air missiles like AMRAAMs and backed by state-of-the-art SAAB airborne warning and control systems (AWACS), and left the Indian Air Force wanting in many places.
From limitations of the Su 30 MKI radar to pick up enemy fighters properly to the technical issue faced by the Mirage 2000 aircraft over firing their Mica air-to-air missile, the list of the shortcomings that the IAF experienced is long.
If Pakistan were to repeat the “Swift Retort” today, the situation doesn’t look great even a year later.
There is, however, a silver lining — the Rafale fighter jets, to be equipped with better weapons package, especially the Meteor air-to-air missile that tilts the scales in India’s favour against both Pakistan and China, will start arriving May onwards.
Also read: Inside story of attack on Balakot — from IAF officer who planned and executed it
Neither Pakistan nor China at present has a missile to counter the Meteor, which has a range of nearly 150 km — it’s much higher than the American AMRAAM that had outgunned the Sukhois with a range of over 70 km.
This means that a Rafale would be able to take out an enemy aircraft 150 km away in air without even having to cross the Indian air space.
But it will take at least a year for the first four Rafales to be completely operationalised with their weapons system.
Also, the much-needed Software Defined Radios (SDR) have finally been ordered from Israel which will help secure communication without fear of jamming.
Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was shot down after he failed to hear command to retreat given by the ground-based command centre because of jamming carried out by the Pakistan Air Force.
India is also in the process of clearing the acquisition of two more PHALCON AWACS, which will help the IAF have round-the-clock eye in the sky.
The lack of more AWACS was felt during the 27 February aerial dual when Pakistan, which operates about 10 such systems, took advantage of the changeover of the IAF’s eye in the sky.
The only actual change that has taken place on the ground is that the MiG 29 has been replaced with the Su 30 MKI as the additional fighter at the Srinagar base that houses the 51 Squadron of the MiG 21 Bisons.
However, plans to permanently base the Su 30 MKI cannot be implemented immediately because the hangars in Srinagar can’t accommodate the giant Russian fighters, defence sources told ThePrint.
This means that the Sukhois will have to fly in from other bases in case of yet another skirmish.
Also read: Wing Commander Abhinandan being shot down is the real Rafale scandal
How Pakistan retaliated for Balakot
Around 8:45 am on 27 February, the first signs of a possible attack emerged as Pakistan shut down its civilian airspace and stopped all commercial flights.
About half-an-hour later, multiple Pakistan fighter jets, perfectly timed with the changeover of IAF AWACS, started taking off from different bases.
At that particular moment, only two Su 30 MKI in the south of the Pir Panjal and two upgraded Mirage 2000, north of the mountains, were doing the Combat Air Patrol (CAP).
The Pakistani package of 25 fighters, including the F 16s and the Mirages, made their way towards the LoC but did not cross the mutually agreed 10 km cut-off point for fighters.
A few Pakistani fighters took off in the direction of the international border with Rajasthan in a bid to trick India, just like India had done the previous day.
Leading the Pakistan strike package was the F-16s armed with the AMRAAMs.
The American-built fighters moved towards the south of the Pir Panjal while the Mirages moved towards where the other two Indian fighters were flying.
Also read: Pakistani military plane that crashed was used for surveillance after Balakot strikes
What went wrong
Sources said the Indian fighters were simply outnumbered.
The Sukhois with their R-77 missiles, which have a range that’s shorter than the AMRAAMs, were no match for the F-16s that had better air-to-air weapons.
Sources said one Sukhoi was fired upon by the F-16s and had to take high-speed maneouvres to outgun the AMRAAMs.
The second Sukhoi too took tactical action keeping in mind that they were told by the Barnala-based Integrated Air Command and Control System (IACCS) that AMRAAMs were being fired.
The second Sukhoi had also failed to properly pick up the enemy fighters through its radars.
On the northern side of the Pir Panjal, the upgraded Mirages on CAP duty were outnumbered completely. They had also faced a technical glitch because of which they could not engage Pakistan Air Force (PAF) with the MICA air-to-air missiles that have a better range than the ones used by PAF in that sector.
Panicked PAF pilots break into Punjabi
Realising that the Indian fighters were outgunned and outnumbered, the Barnala-based IACCS ordered the scrambling of six MiG-21s.
Since the MiGs climbed in the shadow of the Pir Panjal range, Pakistan’s AWAC failed to detect them. The sudden appearance of the MiGs proved to be a blessing for India, as the Pakistani fighters were taken aback.
Panicked Pakistani pilots, who broke into Punjabi rather than sticking to the military codes, fired about 11 H-4 glide-bombs, weighing 1,000 kg each, at Indian military installations, none of which hit the target.
The MiG pilots were then asked to “go hot”, meaning they had to go in for a missile lock on enemy aircraft. But the MiGs soon came within the firing range of the F-16s, and they were asked to “turn cold”, meaning they were to retreat.
However, Wing Commander Varthaman, who had gone too close to the LoC, could not hear the command as Pakistan had jammed radio frequencies.
In his pursuit of locking on to a Pakistani fighter, Varthaman crossed the LoC and was within the firing range of Pakistani fighters.
Also read: ‘Make chai, not war’ – Imran Khan’s message that almost won him the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
Pakistan Airforce can outgun Indian Airforce is a blatant lie. And even if it is true the current government is not responsible for it. Anti-national congress didn’t do much for our country and brought shame to us due to fake Rafale controversy. I have seen your channel where most of the commenters are paid coz in few videos which were in pure hindi had 99 % comments in advance english. Even your journalists beat around the bush in advance english without proving any point.
IAF shot down an f16??? F-16!! am i joke to you ?? anyway for all those who think this article lack reality go and check the ( tashreef ) of your (abhi not done) there might be something still sticking to has tashreef. The truth is bitter adage perfectly fits to all such people who can’t accept the truth. We Pakistani are well known for hospitality; putted down a pilot from a flying aeroplane, served tea ( shrrroop)) which was fantastic According to him.
This is called classical chitrol.. ?
You earned a brownie point for sure browniemonger….. your country is a failed state and a cup of tea is all it takes an IAF pilot to release himself….hahaha….
What Bangladesh? Is it a Joke? Its called East Pakistan 🙂
If I were a pakistani, it would be a treat for me to read. Perfectly fitting the fake narrative of pakistan. You guys are one of the worst & most insane humans ever walked this earth. Do you have children’s, I don’t know what teaching they might be getting. Worried about there dark future under such lunatic guidence. I think for hald-bred & pathetic people like you only it has been rightly said.
दुर्जन: परिहर्तव्यो विद्ययालंकृतोपि सन्।
मणिना भूषित: सर्प: किमसौ न भयंकर:।।-भर्तृहरि नीतिशतक
One should not deal with the wicked even when he is knowledgeable. Isn’t a snake ornamented with a gem terrible?
The author is more biased towards India… Knows nothing about the reality….. Such authors should be stopped from making such statements….
#presstitutes
#thePrint
Looks like the guy who wrote this article was actually present in the air fight.
How come no mention of the Paki F16 that was shot down by our outdated Mig.
If Pakis had an upper hand they would not have let Major Abhnandhan go so easily.
This is an utterly one sided armchair opinion.
India bashing at it’s best.
I belive someone from inside provided the facts.
Realizing of the politvid attribute to psychological warfare, or the opinion I’ll present below.
1 on 1 and in an extended conflict, India will probably thrash Pakistan. This talks to bigger material quantity difference vs a small technological difference.
I don’t think any nation can claim vastly superior training methods this day and age other than ability to afford unlimited training hours.
In this war, I gather Pakistan was able to swiftly deploy a bigger force for a quick hit and run for the specific window period and I get the impression the Pakistani realized that hence the panicked dropping of bombs.
India may have more jets but they are stretched, it’s apparent Islamabad & New Delhi were both aware of this, however New Delhi did a poor job of factoring impact of Islamabad moving swiftly during the window period of the satellite change over.if I was Indian what I’d like to know is:
1. Has the satellite change over matter been addressed?
2. Given it has and if Pakistan were to attack anyways, could we scramble a larger force then they can in time to force them back?
3. If what is the resolution of my satellite, and what would happen if Pakistan attacked is smaller numbers below our resolution?
4. Are my spies able to secure Intel in progress of my peers so I am not left far behind?
5. My ability to close leaks as is apparent in Pakistan ability to know exact details in the changeover.
6. Lastly, do I have officers who are not affected by blind loyalty. This is very key for an army, ypu might want to ask Hittler of the importance of this point.
This now looks officially a Pakistani newspaper! You can count on this media house to twist any story as anti India!
Whats common between Mir zafar, Jaichand, Bivhishan, Sigriva and THE PRINT?
Nothing. Just that you have everything in common with Modi who says clouds can mask aircrafts from radars
You ediot, clouds do not mask the aircraft, but dense CB clouds paint on radar and we knew that fool Pakistani radar operators would not be able to distinguish between the cloud’s and aircraft’s blip and it went perfectly on 26 Feb.
No any.
These are media print traitors
Ha ha ha, beggar pakistan nation doesnt even have ammo for a week. Its economy is in shambles. To survive it needs to hope for china or us to help.
Who are you? Are you an American who is busy in covering his right know begging for a safe path to return?
Paf outgunned and outnumbered IAF. Totally fake news. No one will buy this shit. I thought “The Print” is a good media platform, but it’s my mistake.
Just another presstitute.
Writing Anti- national articles always, The print should be in Pakistan. With sub-standard writings, the print is bringing bad name to the nation. The editor and the owner should be thrown behind bars for a life time or sent you Pakistan.
IN the 20 years preceding World war 2, Winston CHurchill spent most of his time warning his nation that they were under armed and under prepared against Germany. No one listened to him and he was mocked by almost everyone. he was proved right in 1939 when Germany captured most of Europe. No said he was anti national. It is good to take a realistic and even pessimistic view of our selves , so that we can be better prepared. The anti national word is coined by the BJP just to cover up their own and our nation’s shortcomings.
Most of your narrative will go for toss if you have noticed how Pak DJ Disco ISPR goofy gafoora kept changing his comments Three pilots became two and two pilots became one ..other pilot is still missing no clarification on it till now…the tree called Azhar Mehmood is still missing… it took 45 days for them to clear the debries…most importantly gafoora has been sacked to be DG ISPR
Every Pakistani is proud of its DG ISPR, India fails to prove that if they hit any compound in Balakot, first version killed 250-300 militants then said we are not sure of the numbers of casualties. Same in case of F 16 the engine part which shown on Indian media was later proved to be not of F 16. The fact is that Pakistan has shown the wreckage of Indian jet and also rescued Indian pilot from the charged crowed and later as guestur of peace released him. But India never brought him on the media.
I am also feel , why Pak released him immediately otherwise, POK won’t be exit.
Are you expert in the field or you were there in the battle ground.
You must have links with PAF.
hahahaha
Ironically this is a news article
writtem by someone who haven’t read any news in last one year! Funny Article
Whatever man – at the end of the day a Mig 21 shot down an F 16 – and that is all that matters. The huge technology chasm between the Mig and the F16 didn’t matter when it came down to the wire. So whatever you write is irrelevant and redundant.
Dil ko khush rakhne Kay liye arnab ki fake news kafi hai ,,, F 16 … my foot ,,, read international news papers about F 16 ,,, then spit on urself
The army is only as good as the arms we supply them. You can’t expect us to win by fighting with bare hands while the enemy is sitting in niche places with sniper rifles. Before questioning the Army question what the government who spends way too much on defence, has given to its soldiers. Its a shame that soldiers are dying of frostbites in Siachin Leh and Ladhak outposts. Most of our Aircrafts are so outdated in terms of technology they can never match the advanced tech that enemy may acquire. Instead of eating billions of tax payer’s money in the name of upgrading the existing flying coffin boxes, the government should buy new advanced aircrafts. Only then you have the right to say I’m proud of my Army. All the past governments failed our Defences and present government isn’t doing anything good either.
Pappu and party is responsible for not updating the army and at same time playing spoil sport when Modi tried to acquire Rafale…things would have much different ..the writer also doesnt mention goofy gafooras two pilots theory which was enough to prove their defeat…
See I’m not a congress bhakt. In fact I voted for BJP looking at Modi and the big picture of our nation even though the candidate I was voting for in my state was an absolute a**hole. You can’t blame one party or one person for the entire mismanagement. In every regime every party has attempted to reform and improve Defenses at the same time used it for their own selfish needs. If what you say was right then it seems we never had a good working Army before Modi came to power. We saw what previous governments did and we expected better but its just the same thing repeating. They spend 0.7% GDP on research and innovation and you expect quality research in this meager funding? What about healthcare? For a nation so populated we spend hardly 4% . Individual countries of European Union spend more in health care than we the biggest democracy in the world. (Data from 2018). We rank third after US China and Saudi Arabia to spend on military and Canada spends 1/3rd of us. Even Russia spends less than us on Military yet our Army is so ill-equipped its laughable. (Data on expenditure is from 2019). Open your eyes. There are bigger corrupt animals sitting in Bureaucracy. Whatever the political party comes into power they are there always, changing their affiliations and support. Look at how spectacularly they failed Demonetization. They did it in Congress rule. They are doing it in present Modi rule and they will do it when an XYZ party comes to power in future. Until they are in power no amount of bravery shown by an Army Jawan is gonna win us a war and no amount of brightest engineer’s innovation will make us technological superpower.
Yes sir correct there is lack of political will and the army is being used for vote bank politics we the certain genre of shameless political class can stoop so low they good no morale these kind of politicians should be ordered to spend a month or two in loc to understand the hardship army undergoes to save mother india
Greetings from Pakistan.
Like you I am a patriot too. Let us hope that the two countries do not engage other than on a sports field. India can start a war whenever she wants but I am sure you realise that its consequences will be beyond control for anyone. For those Indians who are blinded by Bollywood mindset, thinking of Pakistan as a begger state is something which is expected from a narrow mind which is responsible for the creation of Pakistan in the first place. Now if they believe we can be undone, give it your best try. Your mighty armed forces would have done it if they could. This whole saga was designed to earn electoral victory for BJP and some brave Indian soldiers paid the price. Wing commander Abhinandan Vermathan has fallen in the line of duty, respected enemy and was seen off with the dignity and honour he deserves. Just to set the record straight, all PAF F 16s were accounted for as confirmed by neutral sources and all 4 missiles on the Bison of WC Vermathan were found in the wreckage of his jet.
I hope you do realize the fact that India as a country has never invaded any other country in its entire history!!
Facts:
1. Nobody wants war other than the people who benefit from war.
2. In any conflict there are good people on both sides and there are crooks on both sides.
3. Media is just a tool to manipulate public opinion, just like religion. Does one really need religion to connect to God?
At the end of the day, the common man has few “NEEDS” – Food, Shelter, Good health and safety for self and loved ones. Everything else is “WANT”.
Well said dude I agreed with you 100%.
It is vital that we don’t fool ourselves. We were clearly outgunned and outmaouvered by PAF. We were in such disarray that we shot or own helicopter down. Of course our pilots were brave and skilled. That’s why we got away with so few losses against the Pakistani forces with far superior weapons. The simple fact is that the Pakistani response post Balakot firmly laid to rest the myth of India’s superiority in conventional warfare. Let’s face it, our Navy with its dud scorpene subs is inferior to the Pakistani Navy. Our Airforce is pathetically ill equipped compared to Pakistan and it is doubtful if the situation in our army is any better. By the way the T80 tanks with Pakistan are considered to be superior to our T90s. As things stand today Pakistan can outgun us in both conventional and nuclear warfare. The blame this situation lies squarely on successive greedy, corrupt and incompetent Congress Govts starting with Rajiv Gandhi who was the Most corrupt and incompetent PM India ever had. It only the size of our economy and the bravery of our men at arms that has saved the day for India in the recent past. We cannot hope this alone will save us in future.
Did u work in any defence organisation of India
…I mean u sounds in such a way that even india army generals would not dare to assess such things ……you are saying scorpenes are nothing in front of Pakistan’s navy might ??? Sir you are seriously ill informed or u r desperately trying to dis inform people !!
You are completely missing the bigger picture. Yes we have some amount of superiority over other nation but thats not enough to win the war should the all-out war happen. You have certainly missed the Chinese intervention. The New Age silk road project that passes through the Pakistan is an important factor. Should a conflict arises in this region The Chinese army is obligated to take action to protect its assets and what a better opportunity for Dragon to subdue India than this! Not to mention the string of pearls China has set up around us in Indian Ocean. Pakistan is not our primary concern China is. The mighty US is hesitating to cut off the ties with China what makes you think India will survive a trade war between China and India? Times have changed. You can hiss at your enemy to give warning. You can’t afford to bite.
Scorpenes are indeed duds. Very expensive duds. Almost every critical acoustic frequency has been made available in the infamous leak of over twenty two thousand pages of detailed design information of the scorpene submarine. The moment it leaves an Indian base it’s movements can probably be tracked in Pakistan. There can be little doubt that corruption at the highest b levels is the cause of the leak . Some middle man must have been short changed by Indians. In all likelihood the leak is an act of revenge. I will be only too happy if all that I have said is wrong.
This is a paid news article… a prestitute production. Nothing else
As usual, the same anti India stand. Always siding the enemies of India. If pakistan had better equipment, radars, missiles, then why did they have to take a hasty retreat after the Balakot air strike. They even tried to enter Indian airspace the day after the strike, but again they were red faced. Having the state of the art equipment does not mean they are superior, they need brains to use the same.
PLS DONT TELL TRUTH AND LET OUR DEFENCE IMPROVE
MODI IS THE BEST
OUR ARMY IS THE BEST
U R ANTI NATIONAL
True, judging by the comments here it appears our countrymen would rather live in denial than admit the shortcomings and fix them so that no such opportunity is given to Pak to gloat, ever. Facts are quite embarrassing admittedly, to have lost the battle of perception and have been found wanting by a supposedly inferior opponent. I mean the Mig-21 was lost because the communication was jammed with the pilot, come on..
This article is misinformation,and targeted towards print audience ie.,Pakistanis and our psuedoseculars and psuedoliberals….
Yes we were out numbered bit not out gunned
This article is misinformation,and targeted towards print audience ie.,Pakistanis and our psuedoseculars and psuedoliberals….
Absolutely right …almost like running commentary
Lmao wtf. You wanted attention, you’ve got enough now. ???
Very demotivating and kind of anti- nationalist why u vote for congress then which in 2004 to 2014 didn’t do a single fighter jet acquisition pro congress channel
So according to you whoever criticizes the present government’s short comings has voted to Congress in the past. Right? What a jaundiced view.! Grow up kid.
Print are you talking in favor of PAF or criticising IAF . what I sense from this article is instead of telling the Truth that with limited resources we have shot F16 you are blaming them . Even US got schoked on how come Indians beat F16. You don’t notice that ..If you want to blame govt that’s fine but not by degrading our defense.. I feel pity and shame on your media
First of all dont portray the brownie game as a war… it wasnt even near a war.. today’s war is a missile war.. countries with missiles having brains win wars… if we had ageing fleet of migs even then the credit goes to the iaf pilot who made a paki f16 lick the dust.. with our indegenous weaponry, tejas, tedbf, amca and airborne missiles and adequate awacs numbers we will win more brownies but God forbid if the brainless army and leaders of our western enemies ever try a war, it will be guaranteed to go into history.. brownie games will always be a little plus and a little minus from time to time.. giving food to trolls
You haven’t grown up from 90s times. Today nobody not even the US wants a physical war. The war in today’s times are waged on Cyber and economic fronts. Yes the innovation of Indian Defense is improving but its nowhere a match to Russia, China and the US. These countries my have cordial relations with India now but when the time comes they may not hesitate to sell their prized innovations to whoever pays them better. We have seen the Chinese and US making U-turn to previously agreed upon understandings. If an all-out war breaks out today India with its fragile economy and industrial capability will lose more than it lost to the British. Grow up.
Dont feel dejected.. Go.. read about our defense updates….
Dear Publisher of this article of print…i want to tell you. When you were in your mother’s womb, while having sex one night, your father accidentally hit you because of this, you are not able to handle the facts properly.
I’m not this writer’s supporter but if you don’t have anything to add to the argument then stop commenting crap here. Have some decency. If I had to make you understand in your way of thinking then I’d say, your comment shows what kind of culture your parents taught you. Comment from your head not your heart. (In case you are too illiterate to understand that euphemism, what it means is, “comment rationally not emotionally”).
In your case, it’s certain your father accidentally hit you in the eye (one eye!). That accounts for why you are blind to The Print mollycoddling Pakistan. Maybe The Print reporter got struck by his father in the tongue!
In your case, it’s certain your father accidentally hit you in the eye (one eye!). That accounts for why you are blind to The Print mollycoddling Pakistan. Maybe The Print reporter got struck by his father in the tip of his tongue; therefore all the lying!
First of all dont portray the brownie game as a war… it wasnt even near a war.. today’s war is a missile war.. countries with missiles having brains win wars… if we had ageing fleet of migs even then the credit goes to the iaf pilot who made a paki f16 lick the dust.. with our indegenous weaponry, tejas, tedbf, amca and airborne missiles and adequate awacs numbers we will win more brownies but God forbid if the brainless army and leaders of our western enemies ever try a war, it will be guaranteed to go into history.. brownie games will always be a little plus and a little minus from time to time.. giving food to trolls
Does this newsletter belong to Pakistan?
Look at the headline. Shame on you traitor, because of IAF only, you are safe and alive to write this article. Spineless, porki leftist.
This is Fake news by looser who cant accept defeat and too shameless to keep barking at India. Shame on you
I am not expecting it from The Print to write an incomplete article. What happened after when Abhinandan enter POK and shot down F16.
Who’s going to mention that??????
What the hell it has been published by the print..
It seems totally illogical to have such articles where reality everyone knows. Pakistan matching india……!!!!!!!
Pakistan may be equipped with state of the art defence armoured, radars and fighter aircrafts, which are given by China and other country(s), just as bread is given to begger. But India is also not behind especially indigenous making defence fighting equipment. Further, officers and jawans our three forces are most capable for fighting under adverse environmental vagaries and accept challenges with great courage and boldness. Jai Hind.
India’s indigenous innovations are next to useless. This is niot because we lack innovative minds or intelligent engineers. Its because defence sector gets more money with Imports than developing indigenous machinery, not to mention the corrupt bureaucracy who doesn’t allow setting up manufacturing units easily. Of 20 innovations sent for approval hardly 1 gets nod from committees. That is only to showcase on the Museums. Most of whatever we have are inspirations(cheap copycats) of already proven ammunition. Ypu can’t win a war with sheer bravery of few soldiers. You win a war with an army equipped with better facilities and ammunition. Even bravest soldier on foot is a sitting duck to a sniper on building.
What indigenous weapon does Pakistan have. Kaveri engine, Tejas, Naag missile or 8000 km range Agni.
hahaha
You are talking about Agni and LCA Tejas? The project to innovate and manufacture indegenious aircraft was started in 1969 and the design was almost completed by 1975. Its the France’s Aviation Consultancy that helped us conceptualize and make a solid plan for Tejas and that was in 1988. The Agni development is whole another story.
I know developing an Aircraft and a missile isn’t childs play but three decades? Really? You call this an Innovation?
Its a shame how Indians who head so many big Corporate companys throughout the world achieved so little in our own homeland. The fastest Computer processor we could manufacture : ‘Shakti’ is worse than Mediatek processors of last decade and we produce largest amount of engineers every year in the whole world. Grow up.!
May be Pakistan is equipped with state of the art defence armoured, radars and fighter aircrafts, which are given by China and other country(s), just as bread is given to begger. But India is also not behind especially indigenous making defence fighting equipment. Further, officers and jawans our three forces are most capable for fighting under adverse environmental vagaries and accept challenges with great courage and boldness. Jai Hind.
This on news portals is created to damage this country in every sense.the proprietar to all the journalist affiliated to this paper are specially trained,bribed and provided with services of prostitutes . this paper is not alone there are many more like wire,scroll,syasat et el.
Allah wept… Smh
As per this article, it is Hanuman who wept.
1. Whether the author or the ‘Print’ is pro – pak or not is another point of discussion..it is always better to have your critic as your neighbour…
2. However if there is even 50 % truth in this story , then it’s an eye opener … & indicates scope of improvement in our defence system..
3. Whether Shastri ji, Indira ji or Modiji , all have contributed to strengthen this nation …
4. Truth, many times, is bitter …
Finally someone is wise enough to learn from something negative instead of bashing the agency and the Journalist. I’m a nationalist and support our Army but that doesn’t mean I should ignore the mistakes and failures.
Is imran khan your editor. You sure have no clue what you are talking about.
Just a moron publishing a report
What? IAF outgunned by porkistani air force? Thats why india’s mig 21 took down f16. Even our old fighter planes are beating porkistani’s ass. We have su- 30, rafale, prithvi air defence system. ‘The Print’ shame on you.
I am expecting a unbiased and neutral reporting from a group of intelligent journalists..
When you all started I thought we had finally arrived at one..
But over and over again you people disappointed me on every possible front…
Your background check, situation analysis and the thought for the good if the country seems to be lacking…
You are all absolutely competent lot to fall short of the above mentioned aspects if journalism… And this is even more bothersome..
I come to doubt the journey very intent if coming out with THE PRINT….
It would make me very sad to loose this venture if it falls into filthy journalism category that prevails in the country today…
As of now you are no better than any if them… Get more responsible call spade a spade… Don’t peddle substandard write ups that harms the nation more than it helps.
Pls don’t use your dirty forum to propagate fake propaganda. Its high time our government should take action against these media houses and their editors who encourage these kind of fakery. They are nothing more than the lapdogs of Pakistani and western media. A background check on there funding needs to be done. Good for you, that it is published in India with a tolerant government at the centre. Shame!! Shame!!
Mera Bharat Mahaan. Salute to all para military ? who risk their life at border to keep us safely.
Now come to the point, I don’t think he insult our heroes, he point his finger☝ to the govt of India for failed to update our defence base coz this was also true one year back from now our enemies outnumbered our defence, they shot down our fighter mig2000 and captured wing com AbhiJi.
Did we retaliate? I don’t think so.
We saw many news channel reporting about killings of more than 200s JAM cadet but all of them from non reliable source.
Govt of India should be take serious step to upgrade our defence system as soon as possible. Once again
Mera Bharat Mahaan
Jai Hind??
In the world history…never 90000 soldiers surrendered to the opponent.
Never 110 tanks were trapped in a single battle.
…any war veteran of 1971 can recollect the proud achievements of our Forces.
Also one should not forget the famous Battle of Longoval…where 150 Indian soldiers outnumbered and defeated the enemy forces consisting of a tank regiment of 2500 soldiers…
Please read the war history by many neutral authors.
Youngsters who are born later , can write anything bullshit.
Let us excuse them for their ignorance..
…posted by War veteran of 1965 and 1971.
Lol…the writer clearly has no f*** idea what happened that day. PAF outnumbered IAF fighter jets – is she crazy or in a lala land? Btw, the official version is no F16 were used then how come the writer is saying the opposite.
Clearly a biased article to please Islamabad – maybe to get a citizenship???
I seriously thought print is Pakistani media.
Who is the writer of this report ..find that bloody anti national …east or west IAF is the best..jai hind
Seriously? I mean seriously?
Now this is where Kapil Sharma gets some serious competition in comedy. LMAO
Dear editor,
I kindly request u to go back and complete the…grade in which.u probably would have failed in school…ur work show total lack of wit,and lack of research in what are u writing..firstly taking about the su 30 mki indian sukhoi have unmached capacities ..fitted with ols optical detection pod..plus indian sukhoi’s are upgraded with isreali and u.k tech…instead of cheap…chineese tech…sukhoi radars were able to detect the chinese stealth fighters during dolkam standoff…i hope by this info…u would learn something and do a proper research…before working on an article..and not to drool over and write
You can write anything, hehe what a story. Did you dream it last night
The article is being shared with public so that the coming Rafaels get a smooth entry into India, without further public cries for investigation into high costs, misuse of public money. Ha ha. Nice innovative approaches.
Only one question..if IAF out gun and out numbered..then why not PAF done their work of bombing indian territory.with perfection with so called advanced equipment…as per you they are so perfect them..why they run away….