So you're saying the story about Abhi's 'radio' being jammed was essentially cooked up then? A face saver for an errant pilot at the expense of an entire AF/nation?
If that's the claim, it protects him legally. But all we have is an article carrying that story.
Had he failed to achieve anything, never mind the fact that he was a princeling, he would have either lost his life in Pak or been disciplined with loss of rank or even jailtime after returning.
His actions gave Pakistan breathing space which was detrimental to India, but at the same time, it gave India escalation dominance, so we could end things without having to bring the navy in, let along the army, the latter positioned to invade. He got lucky things worked out for him politically.
Anyway, the wingman does not obey the orders of the controller, only the group leader. If they were both jammed, and only the wingman turned back, it was only by the order of the leader. If they had been jammed and unknowingly crossed the border, then both would have crossed the border, not just the leader.
How come the same rules don't apply to the IN then? The broad specs of its Link 2 DL are on BELs website for the world to see
OSA on PSUs is a bit lax. They are allowed to advertise. That's why DRDO's stuff is also advertised, but foreign stuff is not, because the source has to be the IAF rather than OEM, with the exception of already known stuff. We have been getting images of weapons integration of DRDO's weapons, but we don't see the same from Israel for Rampage.
For example, we don't know the full specs of the modifications on Rafale. We don't even know if the new antenna under the engine is L band or Ku/K band. We only have a Dassault-released image of that antenna, and we are speculating it's the latter. Similarly, we have only a French image of an Indian variant of Rafale with Meteor.
But this big reveal about Sindoor came as a surprise to all defense watchers.
This is how we got to know Meteors were operationally deployed during Sindoor. Along with everything else that was deployed/used during Sindoor. Killed that silly assertion that IAF did not have Meteors.
