“It is important not that the jets were shot down, but why they were shot down“-said Anil Chauhan, Chief of Staff of the Defense of the Indian Armed Forces, in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Saturday, during his stay in Shangri-la dialogue in Singapore. Pakistan's claims about the shooting of six Indian aircraft he called” absolutely false “, although he refused to specify how many India lost.
“Why were they shot down, what mistakes were made – this is important,” said Chauhan, when asked about the fighters. “Numbers are not important,” he added.
“The good side is that we are able to understand the tactical error that we committed, fix it, fix it, and then implement it again after two days and fly again with all our jets, aiming at long distances,” said Chauhan.
These comments So far, they are the most direct statements of the Indian government or military official about the fate of this country's fighters during the conflict with Pakistan, which broke out on May 7.
This clash was the worst conflict between the neighbors armed with nuclear weapons, and both sides exchanged air attacks, drones and rocket missiles, as well as artillery shelling and shooting weapons along the common border.
The attack took place on April 22 in Kashmir controlled by India, where the shooters killed 26 civilians, which India called the act of terrorism organized by Pakistan. Leaders in Islamabad denied that they were involved in it.
