The images of its quivering pilot in Pakistani custody is not something Indian government imagined when it ordered the Balakot incursion. This is a major propaganda defeat for India, which couldn't give any evidence for its previous claims but now has to sit through THIS.
>BREAKING MOMENTS when Indian Pilot Wing Commander Abhi was captured alive,and Pak Army actually acting to protect him from revenge by locals
>IAF incur into PAK airspace and drop bombs (damage disputed) >some ground skirmishing/arty along border (nothing major/outcomes disputed) >2 IAF aircraft down, 1 MiG-21 in PAK territory, second Mi-17 in Indian territory (claimed technical failure) >PAK has 1 IAF pilot
Anything else?
Owen Hughes
bobs pls
Christian Rodriguez
indians shoot down 1 paki F16 (or its chink copy)
Dylan Reyes
bagina is danger to be destroyed by nukular benis!
Subhumans killing each other off. Thank fucking God
Jordan Rodriguez
Pak has 2 pilots not 1, only 1 has been shown publicly yet.
3 indian aircraft down* not 2. 1 was down as technical failure, 2 were shot by pakistan one of which was in pakistan and other was in indian side of border. they got the pilots from pakistani side plane.
pak bombed 6 different spots in india and will release video footage today.
Cameron Morris
We've got a brown hawk down
Jeremiah Kelly
implying that F1-16 are not shity cheap copys of mig 21´s and are build out of mig 21´s to have a even the slightest chance.
please, at least try to stick to the truth. US of sux cant build a plane if there life depended on it.
Hello my friends I am Grand airmarshall Poowings of the great IAF I am stopping by to be assuring you that the most mighty hand of retaliation will be layed across the quivering Pakistani servant boys behinds. Let me be telling you sirs that this will not go undesignated. we have most many aircraft that we have been doing the collecting of from every place and soon we will have finished refitting rubber bands and then we will be telling them! So my superior caste white sirs let me be thanking you for doing the pretending we are people like you. May your poos be large and of a pleasant texture.
Easton Peterson
>Pak has 2 pilots not 1, only 1 has been shown publicly yet. so only proof of 1
>3 indian aircraft down* not 2. 1 was down as technical failure, 2 were shot by pakistan one of which was in pakistan and other was in indian side of border.
We know the Mi-17 broke and crashed in Indian territory. For me it's still unclear how many IAF jets went down and where, only got solid proof of one in PAK territory (the captured pilot)
Videos of burning wreckage/bodies are the Mi-17
Cooper Roberts
WE HAVE A BROWN HAWK DOWN WE HAVE A BROWN HAWK DOWN IT IS DOING THE GOING DOWN
Chase Morgan
There's 2 that were shot by Pakistan, 3rd was irrelevant as it was technical failure.
As I said, of the two that Pakistan downed, one fell inside Pakistan's side of the border and the other fell on the Indian side. Pakistan has arrested and the videos are of the plane that fell in the pakistani side.
>Vatniks : >Haha now we will see the westshit F-16 get BTFO by glorious slav technology >Riceniks : >Haha now we will F-16 get BTFO by Russian planes and Pakistan will buy more of our IMPLESSIVE fighters >Baguetteniks >Haha now we will see F-16s get BTFO by LE GLOIRE Mirage technology And then, as expected by everyone who actually knows something about planes, pak F-16s dabbed on all of them. Someone needs to make a chad F-16 leading three virgin slavshit, bagutteshit and riceshit virgin fighters on a lead.
How shitty is india that they are using mig-17s and mig-21s? One of the worlds biggest economies with an actual border security issue cant be fucked to atleast buy some cheap gripens or somthing?
Nicholas Sullivan
India has hundreds of SU-30 and Mig-29 fighters. The big question is why they aren't using them.
Josiah Ortiz
Except F-16 either done nothing if you believe Pakistan or was shot down by MiG-21 if you believe India?
Nolan Perez
They didn't. Slavshits are in maximum damage control. Some smelly paki goat herders took down Russia's most modern fighters and didn't even break a sweat doing it.
It kinda makes sense to use second rate stuff during this stage of conflict with wonky rules of engagement. Where you could expect lots of merges and mock dogfights. But it is bad PR.
Adam Nguyen
>COPE intensifies Noone will ever buy slavshit planes again.
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Cooper Murphy
I miss read people saying mi-17 and thought they were still using mig-17s that is little more understandable. I understand Pakistan using shitty aircraft because their GDP is only a small fraction of Indias.
Thats what i thought maybe they are holding their punches for some reason
Gabriel Phillips
Imagine getting shot down by a fucking JF-17 just because your government is too cheap and corrupted to buy more Flankers or a decent amount of Rafales.
Levi Ortiz
India also has the Tejas which is their indigenous fighter that's supposed to replace the Mig-21. It's had problems but it would probably perform much better than the Mig-21 in air-to-air.
James Johnson
Above all, the one thing that is proven today is that ALL of India's claims yesterday were totally and completely false .
Robert Cooper
so what the fuck happened? The indians lost a Mig 21 inside pakistan. Did they also shoot down a paki F-16 or was that bullshit?
Ryan Sanchez
turns out inventory cant fly itself especially when your pilots barely get any hours and maintenance is nonexistent
Juan Cooper
>but it would probably perform much better than the Mig-21 in air-to-air. Friendly reminder that the Tejas has less than an hour of endurance with a combat load. It's at best comparable to an early MiG-29, without the off-boresight capabilities.
Ryder James
>Did they also shoot down a paki F-16 or was that bullshit? 0 proof of that
Indians lost 2 Migs according to Pakistani prime minister, and 2 Indian pilots are in Pakistan's custody
Owen Cox
I don't know why PAK would lie about using the JF-17 and not F-16, unless they DID lose an aircraft and would rather claim they lost a JF-17
Neither side has been particularly truthful, didn't PAK claim they captured 10+ Indian border outposts yesterday?
No solid proof any PAKAF craft have been downed
Aaron Jackson
The real issue is why did India feel it was necessary or wise to send a Mig-21 into Pakistan to face modern 4th generation fighters?
Isaac Moore
>didn't PAK claim they captured 10+ Indian border outposts yesterday?
no? this wasn't claimed by anyone with any authority in Pakistan
Liam Brown
pilot probably just got tunnel visioned
Adam Diaz
chairforce retard seeking glory
Levi Watson
Using f16 in this case violates the end user agreement with us and would put them in deep shit
Jeremiah Reed
Isn't ground control supposed to tell him to break off and return to base? These Mig-21 have radios don't they?
Blake Gray
>Indians lost 2 Migs according to Pakistani prime minister, and 2 Indian pilots are in Pakistan's custody >according to PAKs
once again my dudes all we have is video of one (1) IAF pilot captured, therefore equalling one (1) IAF plane down.
Please post proofs (and not Indian/PAK press releases). I still think PAK/twitter is claiming the broken Mi-17 is the second IAF jet
Aiden Diaz
sure. But while old they're also wicked fast and indian ground control is probably as good as the rest of their forces
Benjamin Bailey
Post a timestamped photograph right now proving you aren't a pajeet or I won' respond to anything in your post
Owen Roberts
What happened to all the Poo IDF yammering about winning against the 'weak muslims' yesterday? Still no evidence any terrorist was killed in the first surgical air strike. Unless Indians count trees as terrorist?
