CDS Anil chauhan Confirm losses of indian airforce on 7th may. #iafplane

General Anil Chauhan.
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), has
become the first Indian official to
confirm that the Indian Air Force lost
some fighter jets in clashes with
Pakistan on May 7. In an interview to
Bloomberg TV in Singapore, he
however declined to specify the exact
number of fighter jets India lost that
night
"What is important is that-not the jet
being down, but why they were being
down, General Chauhan is quoted as
having said in the interview on
Saturday (May 30), while he WaS
attending the Shangri-La Dialogue in
Singapore
"Why they were down, what mistakes
were made - that are important
Numbers are not important,"' he said,
when asked about the fighter jets
He also called Pakistan's claims that it
shot down six Indian warplanes thatnight as "absolutely incorrect".
General Chauhan in an interview to
Reuters also acknowledged that the
Indian Air Force suffered losses
during the conflict - again without
specifying a number of platforms lost
- and said: "What was important is,
why did these losses occur, and what
we'll do after that," referring to the
Pakistani claim of downing six Indian
fighter jets on May 7.its official media briefings during
and after the four-day conflict, foreign
secretary Vikram Misri and Air
Marshal A.K. Bharti, director-general
of air operations, had not denied the
losses.
Bharti had said that "we are in a
combat situation and losses are a part
of combat", but declined to divulge any
details. General Chauhan becomes the
first official to confirm the losses.
The CDS in his interview to
Bloomberg Television underscored
that India had learnt the lessons from
those losses and implemented them
during the conflict.
"The good part is that we are able to
understand the tactical mistake which
we made, remedy it, rectify it and then
implement it again after two days and
flew all our jets again, targeting at long
range," he is quoted as having told
Bloomberg TV.
He made similar statements to Reuterssaying: "So we rectified tactics and
then went back on the 7th, 8th and
10th in large numbers to hit air bases
deep inside Pakistan, penetrated all
their air defences with impunity
carried out precision strikes."
The air force, he added, "flew all types
of aircraft with all types of ordinances
on the 10th".
Earlier this month, Pakistani Prime
Minister Shehbaz Sharif had claimed
that his country had shot down six
Indian fighter jets, including three
French Rafales, on the first night of the
conflict.
Many foreign publications, including
the CNN, BBC, Le Monde and
France 24, have reported on the loss of
Rafale fighter jets, but the total number
of fighters lost by the Indian Air Force
that night has not been confirmed yet.
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