I'm just a fair non bias person who doesn't just blindly believe in everything i hear, if it's from Rueters or even global times.
eg - If Rueters had official confirmation from a chinese military official that a chinese submarine sunk, i would believe. but If they don't and they instead have images of a submarine being pulled out of the water with cranes, then i would believe them also. But they have none.
Same thing with this article. They don't have an official confirmation from dassault or indian military official, they don't have videos/photos of the shot down jets. i would be a hypocrite to believe this article.
I will eat my words one day if any more evidence comes out, but right now. it's not enough to confirm anything.
Well, the Chinese sub story was based on a satellite image of a submarine which is designed to 'sink' analysed by an armchair general on the internet. His evidence was the appearance of 3 cranes. That is circumstantial evidence, could it have been some material lost in that area? Or some lifting test? nobody knows, but Western media is extremely biased against China, they will tend to veer towards the negative .
In the case of the current Rafale debacle, we have official Pak announcement of shooting down Rafales, might be exaggerated, but something was shot, we have photographic evidence of Snecma M-88 engines, we have Indian media reporting 3 crashes and then retracting. We have complete silence from Indian GOI. We have PL-15E debris, we have 3 unaccounted Baker seat ejections, there is just too much evidence to ignore. My guess, at least 3 planes were lost/shot/crashed by unknown means, could be incompetence, could have been friendly fire, could have been shot. And the most critical of all, Western media has no incentive to potray Chinese weapons positively, something shocking must have happened for them to report it this way, and even then they are painting it as Indian incompetence rather than Chinese weapon technology superiority.
So tell us what crashed in Bathinda?
1 civilian dead, 9 injured as unidentified aircraft crashes in village near Bathinda Air Force base
We even know the BS001 serial number, simple just show us whether BS-001 is still alive but then judging from Indian ego, they might actually repaint one of their Rafales as BS001.LOLOL