PAF did not say that. They said they prioritized the Rafale.I can only conjecture, but I suspect that India was in the same boat so their stockpile of Meteor missiles is very shallow. We didn't see any Meteors on the aircraft downed on May 7, but we shouldn't have expected to begin with. The Meteors would have been carried by the Rafales the cover mission, and Pakistan said that they only targetted the Rafales that performed strike missions.
There is atleast one wreckage found with the meteor (either the one in Bathinda or Akhnoor).
Also, this meteor purchase may be related to the recent Rafale-M order by Indian Navy.



