In Press Briefing DGMO of Indian Air Force Air Marshel AK Bharti briefed about indian Rafaels.
He was asked, " Sir, can you give number of assets we lost?"
In answer he said that he cannot comment. He said that we should ask about objectives being achieved or not instead of asking about assets lost.
In this Briefing It clearly seemed that he hided the damage done by Pakistan Air Force. His silence on original question shows that Pakistan claim about Indian Rafaels is a fact. If there has been no Rafael shot down Indian state representative may have rejected that openly. But they are trying to divert attention of people towards objectives so people get happy about objectives being achieved and don't be sad on the damage they faced.
Air Marshel AK Bharti said, " You know we are in a combat scenario and losses are a part of combat. The question that you must ask us, okay and indeed that we must ask ourselves, you inclusive; Is have we achieved our objectives? Have we achieved our objective of decimating that terrorist scam; And the answer is a thumping Yes!
And the results are for the whole world to see. As for the details what could have been? how many numbers? which platform did we lose? ; You know in this, at this time, I would say that we have achieved our objectives and I would not like to comment on that because we are still in a combat situation
And if I comment on anything it will only be advantage adversary. So we don't want to give him any advantage at this stage all I can say is that we have achieved our objectives that we selected."