Kochi: The Indian Air Force confirmed shooting down six Pakistani aircraft during Operation Sindoor carried against Pakistan backed terror attack at Pahalgam killing 26 people on April 22, media reports said.
Five fighter jets and a large aircraft was downed in a Mid Air attack, media reports quoting Air Chief Marshal A P Singh said.
The large aircraft could be either an ELINT or an AEW&C aircraft taken on at a distance of 300 kms.
This is actually the largest ever recorded surface-to-air kill that we can talk about,” he said at the annual 16th Air Chief Marshal LM Katre Lecture in Bengaluru.
The Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile system was a “game-changer”, he said.
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