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"How Can We Fight (Pak) F-16s Without Rafale?" Centre Argues In Top Court



**India needs Rafale jets to defend the country "from Pakistani F-16 fighters that recently bombed us", the government said today at an open court hearing on petitions asking the Supreme Court to review its clean chit to the fighter jet deal with France. "We need Rafale jets to defend our country from F-16 fighter planes that recently bombed us. Without Rafale how can we resist them," the government's lawyer, Attorney General KK Venugopal argued.** - Reported by Indian media ..

Rafale documents stolen from Defence Ministry: Attorney General informs SC..



Documents pertaining to the Rafale fighter jet deal have been stolen from Ministry of Defence, Attorney General of India KK Venugopal has informed the Supreme Court of India.

Well what do they want? It will take time to build the Rafales. Even more if they want to do assembly in India because that will require a technological transfer. The best the French could do is provide them with some of their own 2nd hand Rafales if they want it any faster.

India has more than 250 Su-30MKI - if they cannot take on <200 F-16 and JF-17 with that force, even a couple of hundred Rafales aren't going to change things.

This is a red herring.

^ Interesting pivot from Russian media. They were very pro IAF a couple of days ago (lol.)

^ Indian defense analyst explaining why India's conventional deterrence is now compromised.

Indian Military Confirms Deploying NUCLEAR Subs as Tensions With Pakistan Flared

All four Missiles from captured Indian pilot Abhinandan MIG-21 wreackage have been recovered by Pakistan.

So what exactly he fired to shot down a Pakistani F-16 as being claimed by Indians?

Mig-21 could only carry 4 Missiles at most, no more and it actually was carrying 2x R-77 and 2x R-73.
It could not fire any missile .

That is actually a pretty potent missile loadout. Especially considering the original MiG-21 did not even have a radar.
Still, even with the upgrades the Indian MiG-21s have, it is a really outdated aircraft. First MiG-21 prototype flew in 1956.

Wow never realised the Mig-21 was capable of carrying R-77s. Surely the modernised radars cannot give justice to the R-77's claimed ranges. Seems like Indian claims about their shot down pilot being the one who killed an F-16 is yet another tall tale told by Indian authorities and media. Doubtful that Mig was carrying any more A2As. If one or more of these Russian missiles presented in that photo actually came from another IAF fighter, Pakistan will have the wreckage and evidence of more downed IAF fighter/s so it's almost certain that downed Mig-21 did not shoot down an F-16 or anything since all its missiles were obviously not launched otherwise the seekers and most of the frame would have been impossible to recover in that state. Then again Indian claims were doubtful as soon as they started claiming Mig-21 wreckage photos as F-16.

Will be interesting to see how the Indians spin this with the new evidence. Perhaps they'll just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist... get ready for fake made in China R-77s used by Pakistan comments