You hit the nail on the head there sir
Chinese Awacs, Saab and now the PN101 ALL were airborne, its no secret PAF has more AWACS than us, add the ground and radar assets
they cant have lasted a minute ! They were monitoring way more, from the second balakot materialized they had assets up reading callsign data for their strike back, guaranteed, said it 10 times they had the VA's CS signature confirmed for the 27th strike they came in for.
They were monitoring for a long while after too each day and night, pak handles kept showing data of assets
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Infact after they caught abhi if you remember he was trying to dispose papers ? those were exfil and cs charts a top intel priority for us
As a part of our RTI training abhi was proabably taught to slowly drop info not lie, stuff like yes im a pilot with IAF, we have jets etc etc allowing us to reassemble all our assets and data cause every min he would exchange some to live longer.
they would then use that to configure their intel searches up there