At least two Indian military aircraft were shot down by a top-tier Pakistani fighter plane built in China on Wednesday, according to two US sources who spoke to Reuters. This was a significant milestone for Beijing’s cutting-edge fighter jet and refuted Indian false reports.
When contacted about the Reuters report, a spokesman for the Indian Air Force said he had nothing to say.
Washington is keeping a careful eye on a top Chinese fighter jet’s performance versus a Western adversary in order to predict how Beijing would fare in any conflict over Taiwan or the larger Indo-Pacific.
There is strong evidence that Pakistan deployed the Chinese-built J-10 aircraft to shoot air-to-air missiles on Indian fighter jets, bringing down at least two of them, according to a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
