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Alan Warnes writes in his AFM article on the air battle: 1. Pak has 2 Cn satellites that are networked in their air defence set up so they knew immediately when our packages started gathering 2. Saab 2000 at Bholari was destroyed 3. Hangars were struck at Nur Khan (??) 4. D20 and Saab2000 provided c...

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I don't understand the complacency part, we gave the enemy a full 16 day head notice of our intentions, we should have known they will be fully prepared. Theoritically, if it was a HQ-9-AWACS-J17-PL-15 coordination, there must have been some time lapsed between us firing the missiles, and their coo...

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It is threat no doubt, but this is stretching engineering capabilities a bit too much. First L/S band isn't good enough to to guide PL-15. Requires X-band. Okay maybe it guides to general area and then the onboard seeker takes over. How does the co-ordinates make it from Erieye to PL15? Difficult t...

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Current thoghts, based on read of info, disinfo and propaganda released so far, on the air war part of the conflict: 1. May 6/7, IAF had a sense of complacency (our birds were well protected and away from known threats and capabilities). Complacency perhaps because Eyrie(s) not on station or far awa...

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Where does he blog now? Indianmavericks is not updated. I found it hard to agree with some of his analysis in the past. He is certifiably crazy. Please do not believe his bokwas. Severely paranoid and conjures up end-of-world scenarios in his head. See this post of India's success at Kirana Hills -...

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Ex BRF oldie Sunil S conjectures in other places: 1. IAF hitting PAF precisely is bad news... for India, as this means that Pak now knows their nukes and critical nodes are insecure, and this knowledge will have consequences on security paradigm 2. IAF possibly messed up hitting Kirana hills... supp...

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FYI Sushant Singh in his paywalled essay on op Sindoor in Caravan (June 2025 ed) says: "Officials in the Indian military told me that all the IAF’s losses had been caused by Pakistani air defences" Taking this at face value, does it then means that 1. HQ9 has been networked with Eyrie 2. ...

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Pakis were claiming in the initial days that their AA missiles were course corrected mid air by SaaB eyries to hit IAF jets. I would not believe anything coming from Pakis. Do we have some source on this? I think they were pushing misinformation of PL15 supremacy to perhaps really muddy the waters....

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FYI Sushant Singh in his paywalled essay on op Sindoor in Caravan (June 2025 ed) says: "Officials in the Indian military told me that all the IAF’s losses had been caused by Pakistani air defences" Taking this at face value, does it then means that 1. HQ9 has been networked with Eyrie 2. W...

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This is the MiG21 warbird at the enterence

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Chandigarh IAF Hertiage center has a MiG 21 and a full cockpit ex CAE cockpit i guess used for training. The feeling of sitting in that seat is incredible

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https://twitter.com/rajfortyseven/statu ... 67266?s=20

Raj says that Chinese pic of Y20 with 4 coffins is at Lhasa airport while the KIA were supposedly buried at Kangshiwar cemetery (at Hotan). ie staged photo?

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South west?

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For some reason IAF is silent and people on this board who interacted with WCo Abhi on this board are silent. FWIW this action made us aware of PAF full spectrum EW capabilities and that itself is worth its weight in gold.

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Are the citations for the VrC out?

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Locking unless there is new news

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I think that there is a lot of conjecture here without either of the participants coming up with more details. Make of that what you will.

Time to lock this thread?

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It seems even the video released by PAF is fake... They achieved their domestic perception face saver. So we can split hairs but it doesnt matter. The thing is IAF did not respond to the AMRAAM shots... (as far as we know) and therein lies the beef between the two forces. The fued is not over. And ...

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Not sure. Looked like a deliberate miss to me, the weapon was being pointed away from the facility from the beginning of the video and the video only turned off close to impact, indicating no hasty redirection. No big deal though, we know Pakis have stand off weapons and we will take a few hits if ...

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Another thing not clear is if either side fired SAMs at Nowshera?

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We will have to see, by given their deliberate description with the name Shahazudin etc, and in the initial days F-16D was mentioned. I dont it is 84606. We will have to wait for more info on this. Tom Cooper's wrote on Day 1 on ACIG that his Pak sources said it was a F16BM that came down. Seems li...

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Does anyone have timelines of

1. SoW launch from Mirages
2. Amraam launch at Sukhois from F16s?
3. Time of scramble of Mig21s (2 /4 / 7?)

We do know that time of shoot down of F16 and Bison was 1022 hrs

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Are fighter R/T comms conducted in the clear ? I thought they are encrypted. I can somewhat understand commercial aviation airband traffic being in the clear, but I'm surprised that AF comms are also in clear that Pakis can decode it. Its psyops... Message being that "We can decrypt your comms...

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https://theprint.in/defence/indian-army-commanders-left-brigade-hq-minutes-before-paf-bomb-fell-in-compound-27-feb/241324/ Indian Army commanders left Brigade HQ ‘minutes before’ PAF bomb fell in compound 27 Feb Pakistan has claimed bomb was dropped near Brigade HQ in Rajouri to show its capability....

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Punjabi speakers (hold your puke at the bigoted introduction) and confirm what this guy says at 2 min onwards.

Video uploaded 27 Feb

Says 2 pilots..

1st one landed 15 min after his plane fell.. and Pak Army got to him immediately

2nd one was one with mooch (Abhi)

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Time to lock thread ?

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Isn't that "Hassan Siddiqui" recording is fake / psyops?

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Shahbaz is supposedly in the US in Alabama (AFB Maxwell, Montgomery) doing some course (as per Pak source on AFM forum who even posted a photo before deleting it). FWIW.

Sameer Joshi is supposed to be writing a follow up article on Medium apparently.

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Karan M wrote:Even Sameer Joshi indicates its this gent.

Not anymore. Now his guess is that it is S/L Hasan Siddique, who, unlike "Nouman", has not been seen since Feb 27 on media. Nouman has been seen with the Pak CAS and in their Pak day video.

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Ok Ramana-ji. I agree on the strike package pathfinder as well, as it was the Squadron CO that was shot down.... https://twitter.com/reachanshul/status/1105202086906494976 ---> Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman shot down an F-16 flown by Wing Commander Hyder Shahbaz Ali, the CO of PAF's 19th Squa...

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Denel H4 SoW debris south of Mirpur city near Jhelum (diff from the one reported in Bhimber) https://twitter.com/mubeen500/status/1100731744804896768?s=20 So all the mirage H4(Pakis used to call this as Raad) failed, it was the LGB's launched by F-16 strike package which came close to the Brigade H...

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Denel H4 SoW debris south of Mirpur city near Jhelum (diff from the one reported in Bhimber)

https://twitter.com/mubeen500/status/11 ... 96768?s=20

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Unlocked for now. A bit more info in ACM Tipnis article

https://issuu.com/spguide/docs/sp_s_aviation_4-2019

17km range

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Lock for now / until new info comes in

Onwards!

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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27620/russian-mig-31-foxhound-shot-down-its-wingman-during-disastrous-live-fire-exercise There were people recently asking why abhi's wingman did not fire his R-77. an interesting article claiming that 2 years ago a mig 31 got shot down by his wingman when he a...

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LalMo, see

https://twitter.com/AhmAdTipu7/status/1 ... 42880?s=20

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Repeating.. what type of explosion would

1. Shear off the tail portion
2. Pepper tail with shrapnel
3. And rest of fuse seems without shrapnel

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thanks rishi the image i saw had the tail still with the fuselage but flopped over onto the side, so sheared off on ground impact not in the air, and the whole fin not a portion as here the pic above suggests damage to control mechanisms and possibly rear sections of engine by missile, and looks li...

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Thanks Rishi. Markings and screws appear consistent with Bison tail. http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Galleries/Aircraft/Walkarounds/MiG21Bison/Bison12.jpg.html So Tail has been blown off. Other video had a stabilizer (port side) in some other location. So plane glided with only one stabilizer? IM...

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