A Chinese Pakistan fighter has taken down two Indian aircraft, according to the United States
A high quality Pakistani fighter, produced in China, removed at least two Indian military aircraft on Wednesday, two US representatives told Reuters, which celebrates an important stage for the advanced Beijing fighter.
A spokesman for the Indian Air Force said there was no comment when he was asked about the Reuters report.
Washington closely monitors the actions of a leading Chinese fighter against a Western rival to get an idea of how Beijing would present himself in a possible clash for Taiwan or the wider Indo-thihoetan region.
- An American employee who wished anonymity stated that he had great confidence that Pakistan had used works in China J-10to fire air-to-air missiles against Indian fighters, downloading at least two.
- Another employee stated that at least one Downloaded Airplane is a French fighter RafaleS
- Both employees stated that Pakistani aircraft F-16made by Lockheed Martin, have not been used in the download.
Delhi did not acknowledge the loss of any of his planes and instead stated that he had successful blows against what he defined as a « terrorist » infrastructure in Pakistan.
World forces from the United States to Russia and China have called for peace in one of the most dangerous and most populated tension outbreaks in the world, where there is also nuclear weapons.
In France, Dassault Aviation, the Rafale manufacturer, and the MBDA consortium, which produces the air -to -air rocket Meteor, were not immediately found for comment on an official holiday.
| Although Reuters reported on Wednesday that three Indian aircraft were removed, citing local government officials in India, this is the first Western confirmation that Pakistan planes were used in China. |
The Minister of Defense of Pakistan, Hawaja Mohammed Asif, told Reuters on Thursday that the J-10 was used to download three French planes Rafale, which were new from India. A total of Pakistan claims to have removed five Indian aircraft in air combat.
| The Rafale and the J-10 model used by Pakistan are considered to be fighter jets of generation 4.5, which puts them in the forefront of combat aircraft. |
Western analysts and sources from the defense industry have said that the use of some of the modern weapons that may be located in future conflicts of great powers will be considered in detail, but stressed that it is too early to draw conclusions.
| « Community communities in China, the United States and a number of European air warfare countries will be extremely interested in trying to get as much real information about tactics, techniques, procedures, what equipment was used, what did not work, » said Douglas Barry, a senior institute. |
Social media publications sign a clash between the Chinese air-to-air rocket Pl-15 and Meteor, manufactured by the European MBDA rocket group. But analysts and sources said important details were unclear, including whether Meteor had been mounted on Pakistani aircraft at all or how they could have been fired.
« It is not possible to judge anything at the moment. We know so little, » said a western source from the defense industry.
