India’s CDS Breaks Silence on IAF Losses: Why the Admission is Significant
It’s not understood why the government tried to hide the marginal equipment loss as casualties are part of any war.
Social media and large segments of the Indian television media went berserk after General Anil Chauhan, India’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), who was in Singapore attending the Shangri-la Dialogue, confirmed for the first time officially in interviews to Bloomberg TV and Reuters that the Indian Air Force (IAF) had lost some fighter aircraft in the initial stage of Operation Sindoor, due to “tactical errors.”
While declining to specify the exact number or the type of Indian fighter jets lost, and describing Pakistan’s claim of having shot down six Indian jets as “absolutely incorrect”, he added, “What is important is not the jet being down, but….what mistakes were made”, and that the situation was “quickly corrected.”
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