PAF managing to shoot Only a tin can called MiG 21 despite outnumbering 6-1 and dropping bombs on empty soil also raises questions on its resolve.
They bombed your empty soil because you bombed their empty soil. Difference is they bombed empty soil right next to your HQ as a warning, and you were forced to bomb soil because otherwise you would have lost multiple Mirages to Pak CAPs on the 26th and not just a 'tin can' on the 27th.
And PAF would have shot down your Sukhois the next day if IAF didn't turn tail and scatter like roaches after being met by PAF.
Like they did the first time. Abhinandan didn't get the memo though because Pakistan fried your comms. Obviously they aren't obsolete enough seeing how IAF saw it a worthy investment to modernize them with new radars and a huge assortment of Israeli crap, stick R-73/77s on, and
continues to use as a frontline asset against Pakistan even today. I'm not even sure why whether Bisons being obsolete or not is used to downplay the fact that your air force screwed up and got railed by Pakistani counterparts. Like that is just peak Ah Q behavior right there. Imagine if it was the case that PLAAF lost a J-7 to ROCAF, and didn't do anything in retaliation but instead made baseless lies about non-existent F-16s that the J-7 totally shot down before it got AMRAAM'd in the face, and it didn't matter because J-7s are outdated junk anyway.
If this exact series of events took place, it would be used by every potential adversary, especially India, as objective proof that PLA is in fact not just a paper tiger, but a paper tiger which is also a pathetic and incompetent liar.
The entire show with Pakistan alone is enough to never take statements from Indian officials seriously. That's not even beginning to count the other times in which they have repeatedly said things that are later proven to be BS with ease. Statements from Chinese officials (not including retired) are taken seriously on the other hand because they haven't ruined their own credibility repeatedly, unlike Indian officials who insisted nothing was lost on 2/27 until it got shoved in their faces on live TV.