India’s recent air campaign against Pakistan a “clear-cut victory”: Tom Cooper

By R Anil Kumar

• Renowned Austrian combat aviation expert Tom Cooper, a globally respected authority on air warfare, has declared India’s recent air campaign against Pakistan a “clear-cut victory,” delivering a stinging rebuke to Western media narratives and reinforcing India’s military dominance in the ongoing conflict

• ‘No Wonder Pakistan Asked for Ceasefire’: Air War Historian Says ‘Clear-cut Victory’ For India

• India’s precision and coordinated strikes at military installations have exposed Pakistani air defences- Air War Historian

• India hit nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir under Operation Sindoor two weeks after the ghastly terror attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 civilians. An Austrian war expert Tom Cooper has stated that India is the clear winner in the recent conflict between the neighbours

New Delhi. India had a “clear-cut” Victory in the recent military conflict with Pakistan, Austrian military historian Tom Cooper has said.

“Pakistan admitted its defeat, acknowledging that it cannot continue escalating and must stop, or more accurately, India must stop. Pakistan has requested India to cease,” Cooper said.

Cooper said that India’s precision and coordinated strikes at military installations have exposed Pakistani air defences. “Pakistani deterrence has failed, and Pakistani air defences have failed.

This is what ultimately forced Pakistan to call for a ceasefire,” Cooper, who has co-authored 560 books, said.

“After this series of blows, the writing was on the wall: pending the IAF exhausting its stocks of Brahmos and SCALP-EGs, Pakistan had nothing left to counter these,” Tom Cooper wrote.

“No Surprise Islamabad Sounded for Ceasefire”, Cooper wrote.

“After this series of blows, the writing was on the wall. Pakistan had nothing left to counter these,” Tom Cooper wrote.

India’s retaliation to Pakistani aggression following Operation Sindoor was a “clear-cut victory”, said Tom Cooper. This, he also suggested, was the reason that Pakistan initiated the move towards a ceasefire.

The reason for the success of the Indian retaliation, he wrote, was better firepower of India, and its multi-layered air defence system.

In a blog he posted on social media platform Facebook, Tom Cooper praised India’s retaliation.

“In this case: a clear-cut victory for India. No surprise Islamabad ‘sounded’ for a ‘cease-fire’,” wrote Mr Cooper, who is considered one of the most respected experts on air warfare.

Dissecting the Indian retaliation, Mr Cooper said, on May 10, the Indian Air Force “re-appeared on the scene to launch a number of Brahmos and SCALP-EG missiles against selected bases of the Pakistan Air Force.

“With at least two of PAF’s HQ-9s knocked out two days earlier, and the PAF suppressed enough to stop shooting PL-15s into the Indian airspace, in a matter of three hours the IAF Su-30MKI-, Mirage 2000- and Rafale-crews found enough opportunities to deliver a few really heavy blows,” he wrote.

At Nurkhan Airbase, a direct hit set on fire a C-130 Hercules of the PAF. Sargodha’s Mushaf Airbase received at least one hit that created a crater in the middle of the runway.

The worst-hit was Bholari Airbase in Sind, where a direct hit in its main hangar five officers of the Pak Air Force killed, injured more than 40, and damaged one of Saab 2000s.

“After this series of blows, the writing was on the wall and Pakistan had nothing left to counter these,” he wrote.

In a detailed blog post analysing the recent India-Pakistan conflict, Austrian military historian Tom Cooper criticized Western media for what he called “PR efforts” that distorted the military reality on the ground.

In his blog on the India-Pakistan conflict, Cooper slammed “PR efforts” by Western media regarding biased coverage of the military confrontation. “When one side is bombing nuclear weapons storage facilities of the other, and the other has no ability to retaliate left, then that’s a clear-cut victory for India, in my books,” he said.

Pakistan lost 35-40 military personnel were killed in the combat, Indian military said at a briefing earlier this week. New Delhi achieved its desired objectives and that Pakistan will have to pay a very heavy price if it resorts to any more misadventure, they said.

Indian missiles and drones inflicted heavy damage on at least eight Pakistan Air Force bases in a withering aerial attack last week. Several radar and air defence units were also hit. While Pakistani air defences were knocked out, its aerial attacks were unable to breach Indian air defences.

The damage was even acknowledged by Pakistan recently.

During a press conference, Pakistan Army spokesman Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said that “only one aircraft” of Pakistan suffered “minor damage”, without providing details about the aircraft.

Responding to a question, he said no Indian pilot was in the custody of Pakistan, and all such reports were based on “fake social media reports”.

PM Modi’s ‘Lakshman Rekha’ to Pak from Border IAF Base

With an S-400 missile defence system in the backdrop, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent a firm message to Pakistan Tuesday from Adampur Air Base: Not only have you failed to harm any of India’s military installations but you will be annihilated if terrorism continues from your soil.

“Aatank ke viruddh Bharat ki Lakshman Rekha ekdam spasht hai. Ab phir koi terror attack hua to Bharat jawab dega, pakka jawab dega. (India’s Lakshman Rekha against terrorism is now crystal clear. India will respond and definitely respond if hit by a terror attack),” PM Modi said in his first speech to the armed forces since Operation Sindoor.

PM Modi praised the military for humbling Pakistan in the four-day engagement that resulted in the destruction of nine terror sites, killing of over 100 terrorists and damage to its eight military installations.