The Kashmir conflict 2025.

siegecrossbow

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I know it's the National Interest but this pretty funny and pretty Indian. lol

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India and France Are At Each Other’s Throats Over the Dassault Rafale Fighter

May 28, 2025
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The crisis within the IAF cannot by itself explain the excellent performance of Pakistani PL-15 missiles against what were supposedly India’s superior air capabilities.

The
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of India’s expensive French-built Dassault Rafales in its recent war against Pakistan has triggered a wave of recriminations between the Indian and French governments. Not only has the
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of the Dassault Rafales in the opening phases of the recent conflict come as a shock to the world, but other clients of French defense contractors are having second thoughts.
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India Refuses to Grant French Auditors Access to India’s Rafales

Unconfirmed reports in the international press and
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social media indicate that the Indian government is
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to allow Dassault’s audit team to gain access to India’s arsenal of Rafales. Dassault’s auditors want to inspect the Indian fleet of Rafales to ensure that there are no technical problems that the Indian Air Force (IAF) may have missed.


The Indians are certain to be twitchy about this request. Why? New Delhi understandably fears the French auditors’ main purpose is to shift the blame on the poor performance of the Dassault Rafales onto the IAF itself.

Bhakts are reaping their bad karma for polluting the internet with so many non credible articles.
 

thingymabob

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Is there an updated map graphic out there that combines both recently revealed geolocated pictures and footage and the claimed hits provided in the pakistani debriefing? I remember there was one done earlier in this thread but that was just a few days after the air battle without newer evidence.
 

tphuang

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aaaaand another one. Closeup of the fireworks,

At this point, it really isn't helpful to keep posting tweets of video of claimed crashes on a battle that happened over 3 weeks ago, Let's move on from doing this unless something new comes up

In response to Modi's racist attack on Chinese looking people, some Chinese netizens suggested that J-10 be renamed to J-A3 or J-3.

See if you get it

It is very hard for me to go through this thread and see actual productive posts when there are a deluge of worthless posts like this.
 

neutralobserver

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Is there any linguistic expert who could do a rough translation of what Swamy said? There are folks on Weibo interested in subtitles. Thanks.
He mentioned that five planes were shot down by Chinese fighter jets supplied to Pakistan and those jets performed well, whereas the Rafale didn’t meet our expectations. I can provide an exact translation of the entire video if you'd like.
 

neutralobserver

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That will be super helpful. Thank you!
Interviewer: The Leader of the Opposition said something about our planes being shot down. How many were shot down?

Swamy: Five. Pakistan sent their planes and shot down ours.

Interviewer: Okay, was China also involved in this, sir?

Swamy: The planes were from China.

Interviewer: Okay.

Swamy: It wasn’t the Chinese people themselves. The planes that China gave to Pakistan were very good planes and the ones from France weren’t as good. Their aircraft shot down five of ours.

Interviewer: You mean to say Rafale didn’t perform well?

Swamy: Rafale is not sufficient for our country. There was corruption involved in it, we can’t discuss that as long as Modi is there, because he won’t let it happen.
 

paknet

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How come with some of the highest population densities around the world, we get the absolute worst footage. I think Rus/Ukraine has spoiled me in terms of what reasonable combat footage should look like. This is not a twitter dump thread, can we please get exercise a bit more discretion when posting footage? A random fire in the distance is poor evidence for anything.
You are not gonna find any clear footage because India did a cowardly attack in the middle of the night and got their asses handed to them. Though I have to give them credit that this time they accounted for the possible "ass handling" and attacked in the middle of night so they can hide their failures in the dark of the night unlike last time when Mr. Abhinandan came crashing down in the daylight and the footage of his bloody nose and subsequent rescue by Pak army became a symbol of defeat for India in International media.
 
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