Another Analysis On Last Month's Indian Mig-21 Bison Versus Pakistani F-16 Viper Incident

MiG-21 Bison. Indian Air Force

Warzone/The Drive: Enough With The Indian Mig-21 Bison Versus Pakistani F-16 Viper Bullshit

The amount of garbage commentary and skewed analysis on the whole shoot down has been unbelievable. Here's the reality, like it or not.

I have never seen such a large and diverse mess of misinformation spouted and parroted with wild abandon about a military skirmish than what has come out of the short spate of Pakistani-Indian air battles that occurred in late February. But one aspect of those operations, in particular, has been so ridiculously mischaracterized by the media, so-called analysts, and the public in general, that the majority of narratives surrounding it have to be called out for what they are—total bullshit.

During a Pakistani Air Force counterstrike operation on February 27th, one that came in response to India's air raid into their territory on February 26th, an Indian MiG-21 Bison was shot down and its pilot, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, captured. He was returned to India in remarkably good shape not long after. Claims that India shot down a Pakistani F-16 during that same incident quickly followed.

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WNU Editor: Bottom line. There is still a lot not known on what happened in last month's air skirmish between India and Pakistan.

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