Indian Air Force did a magnificent job in damaging Pakistan’s air defence

It was Indian supremacy in Pak sky that made the real difference

- BY SUSHIL KUTTY

The Indian Air Force is drawing kudos from all flying quarters except from fly-by-night operators in the Pakistani media and Pakistani intelligentsia along with retired Pakistani diplomats and Pakistani generals, for laying waste nine Pakistan Air bases and downing hundreds of Turkiye drones, in the “4-Day War” between the two nuclear armed neighbours, which Pakistan never fails to mention in any of its references to India, whether it is to the USA or to China or Turkiye, two countries which are “true friends” of Pakistan.

The USA is also a friend of sorts to Pakistan. America’s famed F-16 jet-fighter in the Pakistani line-up of military aircraft is proof of this friendship on the sly. The F-16 is made to order for carrying and dropping nuclear bombs and for the Pakistan Air Force, the F-16 is a flying pride that even the Americans would not understand. But this is about the complete dominance of the Indian Air Force in the “4-Day War”, and the cause of the devastation of Pakistan's “famed” airpower.

Nine air bases with tarmacs cratered beyond recognition! Chinese missiles left stranded and Chinese jet-fighters unable to beat the drone swarms sent across the border deep into Pakistan. And while this was happening, India’s air defence system thwarted every single attempt by Pakistani drones and missiles to slam-dunk military targets in India.

Pakistani media, in the best-ever cover-up since the time of Goebbels, kept flying canards higher than the Himalayas and deeper than the oceans, talking of “15 cities hit” in India’s north and west by Pakistan's “invincible drones”, but all a lie. If any military targets were hit, they were in Pakistan. Indian missiles and drones had a field day both in the skies above Islamabad and Rawalpindi but also on land where Pakistan’s

China-made radars stood sentinel against India’s airpower.