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In the air battle on the seventh, which lasted half an hour,

we suffered a total defeat in that. On the seventh,

in the air battle which lasted half an hour,

we suffered a total defeat. Whether you accept it or not.

And because of that, the Indian aircraft that went down that day,

that day the entire Indian Air Force was grounded,

after that not a single aircraft took off. Because wherever

an aircraft took off, Pakistani—your aircraft… …whether at Gwalior

or at Bhatinda or… …at Sirsa,

there… …they could come and shoot it down, because of that…

…our complete Air Force was grounded. Pakistan

losses are concerned, I think… …it was very

clear, it was clearly spelled out… …in the

initial debriefs also… …that we have struck

their large number of their… …airfields

and we've struck a large number of their installations

and… on the ground because of this… our strikes…

…there have been radars at… at least

four places… command and control centers

at two places… the runway is of course damaged

at two places… then three of their hangars

in three different stations has been, have been

damaged. And in that hangar as well as on the tarmac…

…we have signs of one C-130 class of aircraft…

…one AEW&C class of aircraft… and at

least four to five fighter aircraft… …most

likely F-16 because that base happened to be

F-16… which would have been under maintenance

at that time. Along with that one SAM system which

has been destroyed.