After India Loses Dogfight to Pakistan, Questions Arise About Its ‘Vintage’ Military

The other side of the story which patriotic Indians don’t want to hear. Nytimes writes “It was an inauspicious moment for a military the United States is banking on to help keep an expanding China in check. An Indian Air Force pilot found himself in a dogfight last week with a warplane from the Pakistani Air Force, and ended up a prisoner behind enemy lines for a brief time.The pilot made it home in one piece, however bruised and shaken, but the plane, an aging Soviet-era MiG-21, was less lucky.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/world/asia/india-military-united-states-china.html

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