Chief of Defence Staff admits loss of aircraft

THE INTERVIEW WAS taken on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore. "So we rectified tactics and then went back on the 7th, 8th and 10th in large numbers to hit air bases deep inside Pakistan, penetrated all their air defences with impunity, carried out precision strikes." The Indian Air Force "flew all types of aircraft with all types of ordinances on the 10th", he said.

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India's Director General of Air Operations, Air Marshal AK Bharti, had told a press conference earlier in the month that "losses are a part of combat" and that India had downed some Pakistani jets. Islamabad has denied it suffered any losses of planes but has acknowledged its air bases suffered some hits, although losses were minimal.

"Most of the strikes were delivered with pinpoint accuracy, some even to a metre," Chauhan said.