Swift RetortbOp by PAF was huge confience booster for IAF. Even though IAF was outnumbered 6:1 temporarily, PAF only managed to shoot one antique disposable tin can (mig 21) plus not a single scratch on Su-30s & Mirage 2Ks and PAF ran away after 20 Indian 4th gen fighter jets reached as reinforcements
I wonder what kind of confidence boost Operation Swift Retort gave to the IAF. India stood down right after that. Not the characteristic of a 'confident' air force.
Why do you call the Mig 21 Bison a 'disposal tin can'? That's quite insulting even for an enemy to say. The Russians are not gonna like to hear a supposed 'friend' insult their legendary jet like that.
But If the mig 21 Bison is disposable, then the pilot must be disposable too right? Abhinandan is gonna be so hurt to hear you say that after he was awarded the Vir Chakra award for gallantry.
And don't even bother talking about that 'downed F-16'. Not even US and Western military analysts support that theory. Russians were at first happy to paddle that theory, but have since distanced away from it. Basically, no one in the world but Jai Hinds in India believes that shot down F-16 BS story.