![]() Impending inductions of the Rafale fighter aircraft and the S-400 air defence system are stated to be “game changers” which are expected to restore the Indian advantage. ![]() The big reminder for the IAF from the close encounter on the LoC was that the diminishing gap needs to be arrested to maintain asymmetry. The BVRs on the IAF fighters – the R-77 and Mica – were broadly in the same range category as the PAF AIM-120 AMRAAM, and the earlier Indian missile edge had been blunted. Pakistan appeared to have parity – if not an AMRAAM advantage – in air-to-air combat, even if only in one episodic operation. While only three F-16s could venture close to the LoC – one of which got shot down in the process – the big take-away for the Pakistanis was that the IAF’s frontline Su-30MKIs had been forced to turn ‘cold’ and take defensive manoeuvres to dodge AMRAAMs fired by PAF F-16s. While Operation Swift Retort was largely foiled by the IAF, with the formidable attack package of Pakistani fighters failing to hit a single target on the ground, the shooting down of an IAF MiG-21 in a dogfight and the capture of the ejected pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman enabled Pakistan to claim redemption for Balakot, notwithstanding the glaring contradictions in its claims, brazen denial of the shooting down of its own F-16 and unabashed flogging of the fiction of shooting down an IAF Su-30MKI. After the IAF’s surprise attack on the Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist training camp at Balakot on February 26, the PAF dared to retaliate within a day. In the post-Balakot aerial skirmish on February 27, the asymmetric gap in favour of the IAF had demonstrably diminished. The IAF exercised asymmetry with the S530D and R-27 BVR air-to-air missiles on its Mirage 2000 and MiG-29 fighters, and went unchallenged in the air. The PAF was deterred because unlike the IAF, it did not have Beyond Visual Range (BVR) missile capability at that time. But while the Indian Air Force (IAF) flew game changing bombing sorties, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was not seen close to the scene of action. ![]() The muscular Su-30MKI will soon account for almost half of the IAF’s fighter fleet, but the aircraft of choice for strike missions continues to be the three-decade-old Mirage 2000ĭuring the high stakes Kargil War in 1999, the use of air power by India, albeit belatedly, turned out to be a huge force multiplier to the heroics of foot soldiers in winning back the forbidding heights.
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