New Delhi: As the top brass of India’s Armed Forces stepped out of the war rooms a day after India and Pakistan agreed to stopping all military action on land, in the sea and in air, they faced many questions which the country wanted to know about Operation Sindoor and subsequent actions.
One of the biggest curiosities was — did we actually bring down any of their F-16 or JF-17 fighter jets between May 7 and 10 as was speculated in the media?
Air Marshal AK Bharti, the Director General of Air Operations (DGAO), answered in the affirmative.
“We have definitely downed a few of their fighter jets… Definitely there are losses on their side which we have inflicted,” Air Marshal Bharti said during Sunday’s special briefing on Operation Sindoor.
He added that those jets were “not allowed to cross into Indian territory… Whatever action was from their side. So there is no wreckage.”
However, the DGAO confirmed that precision strikes by India successfully targeted F-16 airbases, training centres, air defence units, and command hubs along Pakistan’s western front.
