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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

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I just wanna know if there was anything interesting on recent events like what went down with the India-Pakistan BVR fight and subsequent ceasfire.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

U.S. president George W. Bush ducking a thrown shoe while Iraq prime minister Nouri al-Maliki attempts to parry it

Some Wikipedia contributer out there is still laughing at his use of the word parry lol

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It’s like you pull every bad take from Reddit and dial it to 10x

Said the lemm.ee user lmao

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol Modi let this play out just like he did for 2019, it's even likely that he induced the attack himself, whether through Pakistan or directly. Imran Khan even predicted there'd be another Pulwama in 5 years, and he was right.

The wave of drones and ballistic missiles did practically minimal damage to both sides, even Brahmos took a slew of missiles to get past point defense. Pakistan army did jack during their return fire operation.

The only real damage was the aircraft in the air. I think Modi had this planned out with Munir as a stunt, but he wasn't expecting PAF to function autonomously. He seemed pretty pissed about the ceasefire probably because he wasn't expecting to lose several jets.*

Internationally, everyone is reporting on the initial air fight, but in Pakistan its Munir's face plastered on every wall and tv channel, and in India it's Modi's.

*I'm not the only one who shares this idea BTW, several analysts have claimed that the IAF was caught quite off guard because they were under the assumption PAF wouldn't engage with BVRs across the border. They think it was a political failure in planning the operation, and not the lack of capabilities of pilots and/or aircraft (as much as I like to think it is lol).

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Pakistan's generals would sell their nukes to save themselves before they ever used them lol.

Neither country's leaders are interested in an actual war. Modi just wanted PR rhetoric for his party which is why this was almost a 1:1 of 2019. Munir just wanted PR rhetoric for the army running the country and an IMF loan to use on more land development schemes.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Some people actually use the tag feature so that they remember users when they see them again lol

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Actually I think he was intentionally straying to have any remaining coyotes track him away from the herd. He waited it out before returning.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Hey I came back to this after we didn't see Tejas or F-16s lol.

Rafales didn't seem to like the J-10s though ;)

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Dumbass it's Pakistan that uses Chinese weapons not India. Not only that but they claim to have shot down 5 IAF aircraft with 3 confirmed via videos and pictures on the ground.

Even if you didn't want to sepnd the 5 seconds reading the summary, it has been well known that China and India are economic enemies of each other. India gets most of its stuff from Russia because China wouldn't sell to them in a million years.

Moreover its a big deal because they shot down at least one Rafale which is fairly well established NATO/western fighter, which showcases Chinese tech isn't coming slow.

 

I would have posted an article/picture version but ONN didn't write one lol.

 
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