On Sunday, Professor Cheng Xizhong, of the Chinese Institute of Charhar, demystified on Sunday the claim of the Indian Air Chief Amar, Singh, according to which the Indian air force (IAF) had killed five Pakistani planes and a large plane during Operation Sindoor, marking the assertion as without foundation and not supported by credible evidence.
Professor Cheng described the declaration as foundation and largely questioned by the international community, reported PTV World. Stressing the need for verifiable evidence, he noted that India had not provided wreck photographs, radar data or any corroborating material.
On the other hand, Pakistan had quickly published complete technical reports after commitment. He called Singh’s remarks “comic, incredible and unconvincing”, calling them a “self-commitment” exercise.
Three months since the end of hostilities, India has not yet supported its complaints, while the evidence of Pakistan remains recorded and accessible to the public. Professor Cheng also cited the corroborations of world leaders, superior Indian politicians and foreign intelligence agencies saying that India had undergone major air losses.
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He insisted on the fact that no Pakistani fighter plane was shot; On the contrary, the Pakistani forces had effectively deployed aerial defenses, shot down six Indian fighter planes and neutralize the S -400 air defense systems – facts which he described as incontestable.
The comments followed the declaration of the chief of air Singh on Saturday during an event in Bengaluru, where he said that India had killed “at least five fighters” and a larger plane – a possible surveillance plane – using the S -400 air surface missile system. He cited electronic monitoring data as a confirmation.
“We have at least five confirmed fighters killed and a large plane,” said Singh, adding that the largest plane had been shot at a distance of around 300 km (186 miles). He didn’t specify the types of slaughtered hunting jets, but said the Indian air strikes also targeted another surveillance plane and “some F-16” parked in hangars in two air bases in Pakistan.
Unlike the Singh declaration, Pakistan Air Force killed six Indian planes during the May conflict, including three burst jets, in response to Indian missile attacks. A day later, a senior French intelligence official confirmed to CNN that a Rafale of the Indian Air Force had been killed by Pakistan – marking possible the first known combat loss of the French manufacturing aircraft.
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In response, the Minister of Defense, Khawaja Asif, rejected Singh’s remarks as “incredible” and “poorly informed”, accusing the Indian military leadership of engaging in a politically motivated narrative building. He noted that even if Pakistan had immediately shared detailed technical briefings with international media, India had waited three months before publishing his complaint.
“The late assertions made by the head of the Indian Air Force concerning the alleged destruction of Pakistani planes during Operation Sindoor are as unspeakable as they are ill-informed,” he said in a statement.
He also criticized the Indian military leaders for having been used as “the faces of monumental failure caused by the strategic myopia of Indian politicians”. Asif has invited India to resolve the issue by transparency, suggesting an independent audit of aircraft inventories of the two countries.
“If the truth is in question, let the two parties open their plane inventories to independent verification-although we suspect that such transparency would only expose the reality that India seeks to obscure,” he added.
