The nuclear powers of India and Pakistan clash again, and one side already claims the killed in the air battles which resemble a meli-melo of fighter aircraft abroad.
Pakistani officials said Thursday that the country had shot down five Indian fighter planes and a number of drones since India launched cross -border strikes earlier this week, launching a new series of fights between nuclear arms.
Ishaq Dar, Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the country’s air force “has engaged with Indian -defense” Indian fighter planes “and had killed five planes and a non -disclosed number of air drones.
DAR said that on Wednesday, Pakistan used J-10C jets of Chinese manufacture in its response to the strikes of India the day before. He identified some of the Indian planes slaughtered as the fighters of Rafale in French manufacture, according to the national press agency managed by the State.
The five planes that would have been slaughtered consisted of three gusts and two fighter planes designed in Russia: a MIG-29 and a SU-30, compared to the Pakistani army.
Pakistan said its J-10CS Chinese manufacture had participated in the response to the strikes of India. Photo by Aamir Qureshi / AFP via Getty Images
It is completely the mixture of fighter planes. The two countries steal from conceptions of jets from around the world, and conflicts have the potential to put jets in combat which could otherwise not commit.
Pakistan, for example, steals the J-10 of Chinese manufacture, the fighter J-17 Pakistani joints, the F-16s of American manufacturing and the French mirages, while India exploits the gusts and the mirages of the French, the Russian-30 jaguars, the Mig-29 and the Mig-21, the British Jaguars and a house fighter.
The J-10C Pakistan was boasted because it claimed the victories on the Indian Air Force, is a single-engine engine of several roles manufactured by the group of the Chinese aerospace aerospace aerospace industry. Pakistan received its first batch of these fighter planes – improved original J -10 versions – in 2022. They can transport bombs, air -to -air missiles and rockets.
The Rafale is a multi-Mis fighter at two engines made by the French Aerospace company Dassault Aviation. India is one of the small countries that exploit these fighter planes and fields 36. Recently, it signed an agreement to buy more than two dozen more for his navy.
And then the Mikoyan Mig-29 and Sukhoi Su-30 much larger are fighter planes with two engines developed in the Soviet Union by Russian aerospace companies. These two jets are exploited by dozens of countries around the world and can carry out various missions.
The MIG-29, introduced in the early 1980s, was built to counter the F-15 and F-16 of American manufacturing. Meanwhile, the SU-30 came into service in the following decade. These planes represent a major component of the air power of India. The country aligns hundreds.
India organizes the MIG-29, which was introduced by the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Reuters / Amit Dave
Business Insider could not independently verify the statements of Pakistan that she killed the five planes. The India Ministry of Defense and its Embassy in the United States did not answer questions about air commitments.
The information of these clashes can be unreliable. During the 2019 clashes, India said that one of its MIG-21 pilots defeated a Pakistani pilot piloting an F-16. The United States then questioned.
Reuters reported that US officials have confirmed that in the last clashes, the Chinese manufacturing J-10 had been used to reduce at least two Indian planes.
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Not just planes, but also drones
Lieutenant-general Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, spokesperson for the Pakistani army, said on Thursday that Islamabad had destroyed a dozen Haop drones in India-blur ammunition, or one-way drones, filled with explosives. Weapons, which can linger on a target area before strike, are manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries.
Chaudhry, at a press conference, posted images supposed to show debris from slaughtered Indian drones. “The armed forces are on a high degree of alert and neutralize them when we speak,” he said.
India said on Tuesday evening that it launched strikes against nine “terrorist infrastructure sites” in Pakistan and Kashmir administered by Pakistan, signaling the start of a new military operation – Operation Sindoor – that Islamabad lathe a war act.
The Su-30 of the Soviet era is more recent and much larger than the MIG-29. Mohammed / AFP Idrees photo via Getty Images
The latest series of fights, which has shown to skyrocket between the two competitors, followed a massacre last month to the cashmere administered by the Indians, which left 26 dead. India has historically accused its neighbor of supporting cross -border terror, although Pakistan has denied the involvement of the attack.
The Department of Defense of India initially declared that no Pakistani military installation was affected, “reflecting the calibrated and unbeavened approach to India”. But Thursday, New Delhi said it had targeted air defense systems and radars through the border.
The Pakistani management has promised to respond to Indian strikes, and the country has already retaliated in India with mortars, artillery, drones and missiles, said New Delhi. Several people have been killed in the two countries in the last two days.
