Background:-
All this started from 14 February terror attack on Indian soldiers killing about 40-50 of them what actually happened after 14th that Indian authorities were very aggressive and they want to attack Pakistan and the whole Indian Nation was demanding a revenge from Pakistan on this attack and as the elections were also very close so Indian Government decided to give full authority to their military to do whatever they want...Now IAF was given a task to attack in Pakistan and this wasn't easy task to do and they need to know the response time of Pakistani jets in case they come close to border or cross it and they want to now which type of jet will Pakistan use to challenge their jets and to know this they came close to border two times before 26 February and conducted sonic boom blast there and found that Pakistan's response time is almost 2 minutes and they are responding with fully loaded F16 squadron equipped with very accurate and advance American AMRAAM AIM 120 missiles this was a big threat for IAF jets...
26 February Indian Strike:-
And then planning started by IAF officials as to how they could enter and attack inside Pakistan avoiding F16s and AIM120 missiles and then they made a plan to engage F16 squadron in the air somewhere else and extending their response time in this way....and they actually did this and were successful actually..On 26 February 7 Indian jets were detected to be moving towards Bahawalpur sector and the F16 squadron which was in the air at that time was directed by Pakistan to challenge these Indian jets and at the same time 2nd Pakistani F16 squadron was in the Air as backup Air patrol...but Air defense system detected another movement of Indian jets near Sialkot sector and this 2nd Squadron was directed to deal with them at this very time a heavy team of IAF jets was detected to be moving towards LOC comprising of Mirages and Su30mki as backup ,at this time the 3rd team of PAF jets were taking off from their base to challenge them but they were a bit late Indian jets just entered Pakistani territory for 2-3 minutes used their Spice 2000 bombs which can travel 60 km even after they are released by jet,to destroy their target about 50 km away and when when PAF jets reached there they came to know that Indian jets have returned back and they(PAF jets)don't used their BVR missiles at that time because till that time there was no news of any ground attack by Indian jets...
Indian Achievements from 26 Feb Strike:-
- IAF strength shown to whole world...
- Indian ability to enter in Pakistani Air space striking and returning back safely
- Moral down of Pakistani Nation
- Show of India's power
- Making good ground for BJP to win elections again
- Modi be praised
- Surgical strike claim
- Claim of killing Large number of terrorists
The whole Indian Nation celebrated this so called Surgical strike by IAF and Indian media presented this as a great war Victory of India against Pakistan....
Question on Pakistan's Defense system:-
People in Pakistan felt embarrassment as to how Indian jets returned back easily without any resistance from PAF...people questioned that
- Why SAMS were not deployed in such sensitive area
- why BVR missiles were not fired by PAF jets at Indian jets
- why ISI couldn't provide Intelligence report about this escalation in time
Pakistan Striking Back:-
The spokes person of Pakistan Army Major General Asif Ghafoor said on 26 February that now its our time to retaliate and actually we have decided how and when to retaliate our Nation Security meeting will be held Tomorrow at 10:00 AM now India should wait for our surprise...
Pakistan surprised India in many ways...Pakistani military started to attack Indian military on borders with Tanks and heavy artillery fire in Sialkot,Okara and on LOC as well...all Core Commanders were there on the border with their ground troops and were themselves monitoring all the situation...
Indian authorities took this attack from Pakistan as response of their Air strike and were of the view that now this attack by Pakistan army will end soon in one or two days,This firing between Pakistan and Indian Continued for the whole night but stopped in the morning...Indians were really happy...This is actually where they went wrong and under-estimated Pakistan and its capabilities
PAF jets launched Strike on India at 10:20 AM the formation of PAF comprises of 24 jets Including
JF17 thunder,Mirages and F16,Saab 2000(AWACS) as backup
Surprises for India:-
- Actually Indian authorities were of the view that Pakistan will decide about retaliation plan in National Security meeting but PAF jets launched Strike at this very time of meeting in Islamabad
- Indian authorities were of the view that Pakistan's retaliation Plan was just firing on borders
- PAF jets launched Strike at day time which Indian authorities never Imagined because mostly these kind of cross border operations are mostly performed at Night e.g American Helicopters entered in Pakistan for Osama Bin laden operation during night and India also entered in Pakistani Air space last day during night
- Pakistani operation was well planned because Pakistani jets entered in Indian Air space at 10:20 AM because this was the time of Indian AWACS in the Air from the whole night to land and Change it's duty
PAF Operation:-
PAF jets launched Strike on India at 10:20 AM the formation of PAF comprises of 24 jets Including
JF17 thunder,Mirages and F16,Saab 2000(AWACS) as backup...
12 out them Including JF17 thunder an Mirages crossed the border and Locked Indian Military Installations including their Brigade Headquarter(It is believed that their army chief was also present there at that time ) and ammunition depot and 4 other but after locking these targets PAF jets bombed around them to show gesture of peace...Which I think was a very wise decision...
The F16s and AWACS(Saab-2000) was in Pakistani Air space,F16s were reserved for backup and Saab-2000 for Surveillance
Role of Saab-2000:-
It is a jet which Pakistan bought from Sweden and it is very Sophisticated surveillance Aircraft it consists of a Erieye Radar which can detect presence of any Aircraft in Radius 350-400 km ...It played a vital role in Pakistan's operation because it also consists of Radar or Radio jamming equipment so that it can jam enemy Radars and could easily hear enemy control room conversation with their pilots ...which actually it did during Operation...PAF Operation:-
Coming back to PAF operation actually when PAF jets were bombing around these targets IAF scrambled 5 Su30mki jets and 6 MIG 21 bison and Activated their Air defense system,the main concern and Danger for PAF jets were their SU30mki and their Air defense but Pakistani Operation was very well planned keeping these threats in mind and what PAF actually did they dealt with these threats through Saab-2000...Su30 was detected by Saab-2000 when they were about 200-250 Km away and when they came around 150-180 km near PAF jets, this was the time for real action because till that time PAf jets were not in range of SU30 mki Asra(BVR)missiles,but PAF could strike them with AMRAAM AIM 120 missile which PAF actually did very efficiently...3 AMRAAMS AIM 120 from F16s in Pakistani territory were launched and they were connected to Saab-2000 through Data link to keep them updated about target speed and location and one of they successfully targeted a Su30mki and this was huge loss for IAF and then other Su30mkis were ordered by IAF to stay away from PAF jets...see in the video below Indian media accepting that 1 Su30mki which is their latest fighter jet is shooted by PAF ...⇓⇓⇓
and now MIG 21 equipped with R77 missiles and Air defense system were directed to deal with PAF jets...they choosed MIG21 because they were cheap and their loss wouldn't be big concern for IAF and now coming to their Air defense system Saab-2000 was very successful in hacking their Air defense system and when a missile was launched by their Air defense system Saab-2000 hacked this missile and directed it to a flying object which was unknown to Pakistani Saab-2000 and this missile shooted this target successfully and this target was actually their MI 17 helicopter which was on Routine flight....
MI17 Helicopter shooted by Indian Air defense system hacked by Saab-2000 |
and now coming to Mig 21 bison these jets travelling through Pir Panjal Mountains reached the battle field undetected by Saab-2000 due to mountain cover and when they reached there PAF jets were returning to Pakistan after striking...and these MIG 21bison tried to chase PAF jets and due to Radio jamming by SAAB-2000 AWACS he(Wing commander Abhinundan) was unable to get information from control tower that he has crossed LOC and as he crossed PAF jets took it as an opportunity to hit this jet and JF 17 thundet was involved in dog fight with this MIG21 and Squadron leader Hassan Siddiqui was successful to shoot down this and pilot was captured by Pakistan...
PAF Achievements in this operation:-
- Shooting of two Indian jets
- good intellingence
- hacking of their Air defense system
- successful in dogfight involving JF17 thunder
- successful in using BVR AIM120
- Successful in bombing and returning back safely
- No F16 was shooted by IAF jet
Proof of Su30 mki was shooted:-
Actually the AIM 120 missile shown by Indian authorities was fully exploded one
See this AIM 120 its fully exploded one |
Actually this is an American missile which when launched by fighter jet moves towards its target and as it comes close to its target it activates its laser sensors fixed on its sides and it explodes only when target is close to it that now if it explodes then it will definitely destroy target jet so hence proved that one Indian jet was shooted by this BVR missile
Proof that No F16 was shooted by Indian Mig21:-
Us official counted their F16s recently and found that F16s given to Pakistan are the same which means no F16 is missing which means no F16 was shoOted by IAF on 27 February...