While New Delhi and Islamabad are demonstrating their voluntarism to defuse the crisis that led to the loss of a Pakistani F-16, and an Indian MIG21, the results of this engagement, and in particular the loss of the MIG21, highlighted the dangers of the extreme obsolescence of a large part of the IAF's air fleet.
As a fine political tactician, President Moodi took advantage of itto try to put an end to the exploitation of the contract Rafale for political purposes, declaring that if India had been able to send Rafale instead of Mig21, the result would have been quite different, leading to real popular enthusiasm for the French device on Indian social networks.
This momentum began during the first Indian raid against Islamist bases in Kashmir, a raid carried out by mirage2000s. Even the Indian manufacturer HAL, at the heart of the “scandal” Rafale, issued a press release to congratulate itself on the success of the Indian Mirages, modernized by it, affirming in passing that the company had built the devices, which was not the case.
