NEW DELHI: IAF destroyed 9-10 Pakistani fighters like US-origin F-16s and Chinese language JF- 17s, in addition to at the least two particular plane, if the ‘kills’ within the air and floor are each taken under consideration throughout Operation Sindoor, Air Chief Marshal A P Singh stated on Friday, whereas rejecting Islamabad’s counter-claims as “manohar kahaniyan (fanciful tales)”.Whereas elaborating on his earlier remarks on the losses suffered by Pakistan in the course of the cross-border hostilities from Might 7 to 10, ACM Singh additionally stated the transfer by terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammed to relocate their bigger camps and hideouts deep inside Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was “anticipated” after their headquarters at Muridke and Bahawalpur have been struck by IAF.“Now they (LeT, JeM) will most likely construct smaller buildings as a substitute of huge buildings. But when intelligence is obtainable, then we have now the potential to strike deep inside any of their hideouts with completely correct focusing on. We are able to destroy them and their hideouts,” the IAF chief stated at a press convention within the run-up to IAF Day on Oct 8.He, nevertheless, refused to be drawn into the variety of IAF fighters downed in the course of the strikes on the 9 terror hubs in Pakistan and POK on Might 7 in addition to Chief of Defence Employees Normal Anil Chauhan’s remarks that India rectified its “tactical errors” after struggling the preliminary losses.IAF performed the Might 7 strikes with out the requisite suppression or destruction of enemy air defences as a result of the goal was to focus on solely terrorist infrastructure on that day. Furthermore, it was not anticipated that Pakistani jets of Chinese language-origin could be armed with PL-15 past visible vary air-to-air missiles with ranges over 200km.ACM Singh, on his half, stated, “In the event that they (Pakistan) suppose they shot down 15 of my jets, allow them to suppose it. I hope they’re satisfied about it, and they’ll cater for 15 much less plane in my stock once they come to struggle once more. Why ought to I speak about it?”Within the subsequent strikes on Pakistan airbases and different army infrastructure, ACM Singh there was clear proof by way of satellite tv for pc imagery of the destruction of at the least 4 radar websites, two command and management centres and a surface-to-air missile system in addition to runways being broken on the Rahim Yar Khan and Sargodha airbases.Then, the UAV hangar at Sukkur, the AEW&C (airborne early warning and management) plane hangar at Bholari, and the F-16 hangar at Jacobabad in Pakistan have been additionally broken within the strikes. “We’ve indicators of 1 C-130 class of plane and presumably an AEW&C… and at the least 4 to 5 fighter plane, most probably F-16s (being destroyed),” the IAF chief stated.Individually, IAF’s surface-to-air missile programs just like the S-400 shot down a big particular mission plane, both an ELINT (digital intelligence) or an AEW&C, at a distance of over 300km within the “longest such kill ever achieved”, in addition to “at the least 5 high-tech Pakistani fighters within the F-16 and JF-17-class” within the air.“We made Pakistan attain a stage the place they needed to ask for a ceasefire on Might 10. We took a name as a nation to terminate these hostilities as a result of our personal goals have been met. I feel that is one thing that the world must be taught from us,” ACM Singh stated. “Have you ever seen a single image the place one thing fell on any of our airbases, one thing hit us, a hangar was destroyed, or something like that? We confirmed so many photos of their locations. So, their narrative is ‘manohar kahaniyan’. Allow them to be pleased, in any case, in addition they have to point out one thing to their viewers to avoid wasting their fame,” he stated.Op Sindoor demonstrated IAF’s functionality to “ship catastrophic firepower with precision” in one of the vital decisive makes use of of air energy in India’s historical past, he added.