‘What is important is not the jet being down, but why they were being down’: Indian military chief
In comments viewed by some as an acknowledgement of the Indian Air Force having lost aircraft during Operation Sindoor, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan on Saturday said what was important was “not the jet being down, but why they were being down”, Bloomberg reported.
“Why they were down, what mistakes were made – that are important,” Chauhan told Bloomberg. “Numbers are not important.”
“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,” the chief of defence staff was quoted as saying.
However, he said that Pakistan’s claims of having shot down six Indian Air Force fighter jets was “absolutely incorrect”.
The claims made by Islamabad have not been independently verified.
Chauhan’s comments came in response to a question about the fighter jets by Bloomberg TV on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue international security policy event in Singapore.