If you subtract the PR side of it, and focus on fulfillment of Operational mandate alone, what would be your criticism
First of all , you and i both are not even novices in this matter .
I know what i read here itself , ofcourse no news channel said about radio malfunction part.
Mig 21bis is a used by IAF for ground attack although it was a point defence interceptor.
The missile used mig 21 was ukranian made not the orignal russian one , we were outgunned due the range of their aim 9 , we used R 74 probably .
Atleast now IAF is buying from russia itself.
The fact that radio malfunctioned and abhi crossed the loc led to the pr disaster , he shot down an f 16 , no doubt there are its footage .
Still he could have disengaged on time and turned back .
Another fact which showed up was that su 30 were not used optimally , or they didint engage the enemy at all , i have read that IAF su 30 are mini awacs with very good ECM suit , so what happend to it , bhagwan jaane.
The SAM grid was found to be very weak there , indeed.
If luck would have been with us that day then probably some one with a manpad could have shot down a plane that day , but that didnt happen.
The spyder malfunctioned badly , very badly which shows that its target acquisition capability is bad plus it also shows of un awareness of the ground controlers who probably misjudged the postion of enemy planes but it seems more of a technical fault tahn human error .
Thus we saw the episode of 27 feb 2019 unfold in front of us
happening in a matter of 96 hours:
