It is so easy to blame the tool. But the Indians forgot about this trick. The downing of so many aircraft by Pakistan is so overwhelming that the Indians were stunned. They completely lost their senses. How could it be? They paid so much for the world's best Rafales! How could they lost? Actually they were defeated by their own conceitedness and own lies or beliefs. The Indians really believed that they have the best aircraft in the world and are now fearless. They are ready to teach the PLA a lesson. And they are going to whack the Pakistanis as a starter. Modi was so convinced by the confidence of his air force chiefs that he was willing to let them go to war with Pakistan at their own time, at their own choosing. It was a sure win scenario. The Pakistanis were a piece of cake, would be whacked beyond belief. And Modi was happily feasting in New Delhi waiting for the good news. The first barrage of bombing more than 15 targets was a big success. Nothing else can go wrong. All the champagne bottles were ready for a big national celebration in India.
Then the unexpected happened. Modi's face must have turned pale from disbelief. 5 aircraft down in one combat, with 3 Rafales, the best that India had. The Pakistanis only have backward and old Chinese aircraft for combat, cannot match the Rafales on paper and on hype, at least the western war specialists said so, at least his air commanders said so.
This is no WW2 air combat involving dogfights and pilot skills. This is a war of technology and artificial intelligence, radar and satellite technology, weapon systems. The Rafales were shot down inside Indian territories, more than 100km from the LOC. The technology involves sending a projectile, a piece of metal being sent more than 100km away to hit another piece of metal that is moving around at high speed, not stationary, and must have the perfect accuracy and timing to knock it off. Think about it, beyond visual range, unseen and unheard, through space, and the target is not sitting there to be hit.
A sniper would need how much training and experience, and tweaking his rifle, to hit a stationary target 1km away? What kind of technology would be needed to send a piece of metal in a moving aircraft in the air to hit another aircraft more than 100km away and moving all the time, even taking evasive action when needed? Remember how the F22 needed two or three missiles to take down a hot air balloon at close range?
The first thing needed is a powerful radar, with the energy to send signal to and from a target a few hundred km away. It requires a very big power source that an aircraft could not provide, nor the radar in a missile.
It was reported that the Chinese system used a very powerful radar to detect the target at a few hundred km away. It then has to transmit the information to the aircraft to launch the missiles. And an additional airborne radar was needed to guide the missile to the target until the missile is near enough to use its onboard little radar to lock on to the target. Only then that the missile would cruise on to the target, guided by its own computer system, deflect jamming and evasion, to ensure that the target cannot slip away. And all the moving parts of the missile, the fins, must move precisely to fly the Mach 5 missile to hit the target.
The whole process involves a lot to technology, energy and power, computer and AI programming and engineering, to be able to succeed to get the two pieces of metal to come into contact. It is not by sheer chance or the skill of a sniper. It is high technology and engineering precision and system coordination. One point to note, the Chinese radar system did not lock on to the Rafales. Not sure if the FL15s locked on to the Rafales or were guided by ZDK 03 AWAC radar, for the Indian pilots did not know they were locked on and did not take evasive actions until it was too late. The Rafales were equipped to be alerted if they were locked on by enemy radars. From the reports, they were hit without knowing that the missiles were coming at them. This also explained why 5 aircraft could be shot down in one phase of attack.
The Chinese have proven that it can be done, not once, not twice, but at least 5 times. Another Rafale was reported to have also been shot down. Such precision technology repeated so many times in a real combat is not pure luck and good fortune. It is pure science and technology. Not loose talk or fictitious or fake data on a piece of paper. No amount of lies and disinformation by the West can erase what the Chinese had done in this short war to bring down so many world's best aircraft in a single combat encounter. The western military experts would be scratching their heads on how the Chinese system works to avoid detection even as the missiles closed in on their targets. Practically all fighter jets would be equipped with systems to detect being locked on by radars and to activate defensive actions like firing flares and anti jamming actions. Apparently the Rafales and the other aircraft did not detect, did not react, and just went down without a fight. This is chilling. Locked on or did not locked on, the FL15 still hits its target. What guided it to the target?
Not to forget, the PL15 travels at Mach 5 against a fast moving target. It could easily whisk pass any target and missing it, without igniting the contact fuse. The proximity fuse must also be highly sensitive and accurate to detonate when near the target. The timing is extremely crucial as it takes only a fraction of a second to go pass the target. It is all about precision engineering aided by superfast AI chips.
A new chapter in modern warfare and weapon technology has just been written. The West still has no clue how the Chinese system works. There are many unknowns out there. The fear of the inscrutable and mysterious Chinaman is going to haunt the West from now.
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A total of six Indian fighter jets were shot down. Initially, Pakistan said they shot down three Rafales, a MiG-29, and an Su-30 on the night of May 6-7. Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif later confirmed the downing of a sixth Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter aircraft — a Mirage 2000.
“The confirmed kill of a sixth Indian Air Force jet, a Mirage 2000 near Pampore on the night of May 6/7, once again demonstrates the superior combat performance of the Pakistan Air Force and the unwavering resolve of our Armed Forces to defend the motherland at any cost,” said Prime Minister Sharif.
China is now blamed for selling high tech weapons to Pakistan. Listen to the hypocrisy.
Good Testing Air Superiority Might for the PRCs Fighter Jets using Pakistan as their Proxy to tame the Indians Boasts and Hot Airs.
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This is a very great humiliation, a very huge embarrassment for India.
That's why the BJP-controlled Indian mainstream media are now desperately trying to conceal the true events and unabashedly hyping fake news to the India public for damage control.
India just failed to launch a satellite. No need to boast.
Trump had nothing to do with the truce between India and Pakistan and yet wants to claim credit.
Actually without fully knowing it's enemy capabilities and go to war is itself causing its own havoc. Probably Indian Army Forces do not understand Chinese SunZi Art of War very well which causes their own demise. Not only the Chinese hardware r good so is their software. India only know how to boost but they don't understand their enemy well. Without fully understand their defence capability India think they can win the war that's ridiculous. If India were smart they can perhaps test the Pakistani army forces by wargaming first or military exercises but to India they said no need to test them straight away goto war can liao...the rest is history.
No le, Indian is having a 10 days celebration of it victory over the Paki. They could have invited our Pineapple over to join in the celebration and prove to the world that all is well..,haha
The Indian Air Marshalls believed everything the French told them about the Rafales, the best in the world. Can easily take down all the best Chinese aircraft. Modi believed everything the Air Marshalls told him. Buying the Rafales would defeat the Chinese air force. Go, buy, $240m one aircraft cheap and good. As long as they can defeat China, price is not a problem.
So happily the Indians bought the French Rafales, not knowing that they were conned by the French sales talk. Even ordered another 24 before this war. Now must be regretting and wanting to cancel order. The two Air Marshalls were sacked on the first day of the war. Foolish Indians got conned by the French, believing in the white men superiority.
The next idiot to fall flat on his face would be those that bought the F35s. This problematic aircraft is ranked very much lower than the Rafales. How to fight against the J10s?
India is very excited that Canada is appointing an Indian Hindu Anita Anand as foreign minister . . .
There is a video by Kevin Walmsley on his site 'Inside China Business' regarding the shooting down of the five Indian fighter jets by Pakistan. He made a pertinent point about India having military hardware bought from various sources - Russia, France, Brazil and others, countries that are sometimes not seeing eye to eye with one another. This leads to failure to integrate operating systems and failure overall in having a cohesive plan with differences in operating procedures.
The Pakistanis, on the other hand, bought Chinese fighter jets, missiles and early warning systems that already had been tested to work well together in a coordinated manner and the result is what we see between India and Pakistan. The taking out of the S400 was the straw that broke the camel's back, which is the reason that India decided to call a ceasefire, not otherwise.
And those are just export versions and not even what the PLA is using. Well, the West can continue to call them junks.
You mean Sinkieland?..haha
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