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125 hired planes, long -range missiles and explosive tensions: the air confrontation of May 7 between India and Pakistan worries the international community.
A spectacular episode of military aviation took place on Tuesday May 7 between India and Pakistan. According to the American channel CNN, 125 fighter planes from the two countries clashed for more than an hour, in what is already considered one of the most important air fights in recent decades.
A senior Pakistani security official, quoted by CNN, described this confrontation as “one of the most important ever observed” recently. Islamabad claimed the slaughter of five enemy planes, including “three bursts” of French manufacturing, following Indian strikes on its territory. The American channel could not confirm whether these planes were really destroyed. On the New Delhi side, only a security source has confirmed losses without detailing its nature.
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Missile exchanges
According to the first information from CNN, the exchanges of missiles would have taken place at very long distance-sometimes beyond 160 kilometers-without any device crossing the border. A strategic choice which is explained by the memory of an incident that occurred in 2019, when India had lost a pilot captured by Pakistan.
If the exact models of engaged devices are not yet known, India aligns a mixed fleet composed in particular of Rafale, SU-30MKI, Mirage 2000 and Mig-29, while Pakistan deploys American F-16s, Sino-Pakistani JF-17s, and more recently Chinese J-10C. To date, no independent source has been able to confirm the destruction of a burst.
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This military shock intervenes in an explosive climate, two weeks after the April 22 attack at the Indian cashmere, which left 26 dead. India retaliated with targeted strikes on Pakistani positions, triggering the military reaction in return. In the process, 24 Indian airports close to the border were closed to civilian traffic, especially in the states of cashmere and the pendjab.
