Islamabad / Washington:
A Pakistani Chinese manufacturing Pakistani fighter plane killed at least two Indian military planes on Wednesday, two US officials told Reuters, marking an important step for the advanced Beijing advance.
A spokesperson for the Indian Air Force said he had no comments when he was asked for the Reuters report. The performance of a leading Chinese fighter against a Western rival is closely monitored in Washington to obtain information on how Beijing could get away with any confrontation on Taiwan or in the widest Indo-Pacific. The United States’s global powers to Russia and China have called calm in one of the most dangerous and populated nuclear point regions in the world.
In France, the manufacturer of Rafale Dassault Aviation and the MBDA Consortium, which manufactures the Missile Air-Air Meteor, could not be joined to comment on a holiday.
While Reuters reported on Wednesday that three Indian planes had dropped, citing local government officials in India, this marks the first Western confirmation that Chinese Pakistan manufacturing jets were used in the fire.
Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Reuters on Thursday that the J-10 was used to shoot down three French manufacturing planes, which were newly acquired by India. In total, Pakistan says it has shot down five Indian planes in an air fight.
Looking closely
The Rafale and the J-10 model used by Pakistan are both considered hunting planes of generation 4.5, placing them on the attack edge of combat aircraft. Western analysts and defense industry sources have said that live use of some of the advanced weapons that could be deployed in future major conflicts of power would be examined in detail, but stressed that it was too early to draw firm conclusions.
“The Air War Communities in China, the United States and a number of European countries will be extremely interested in trying to obtain as much fundamental truth as possible on tactics, techniques, procedures, what kit was used, which worked,” said Douglas Barrie, main member of Military Aerospace at the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
