interesting article, but still not clear desu
what we have:
1) chinese missiles PL-15. looks good on paper and proved in practice:
For pilots in the Pakistani Air Force, the PL-15 missile has several advantages. Once fired, it has a large rocket booster that briefly propels the projectile to above Mach 5, or hypersonic, speeds.
In the middle of its flight, it is guided to target by an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar that can be held on the launch system or a separate vehicle. Close to the target, it switches on its own AESA radar, locks on, and homes in with deadly accuracy.
2) was there really some mistake from indians? or rather they didn't have change to escape the hit due to that missiles?
at least now it's clear why indians want to change missiles on Rafale.
now sure is there any additional involvement from china, e.g. satellites, as it looks on paper that PL-15 alone was enough.
and as always, kudos to chinese for getting profit out of it (out of almost fucking everything, why merz can't do the same ffs):
1) sell a lot weapon to Pak
2) at the same time watch both curries fighting, while your enemy turning own arsenal to ash
3) (idk was there any involvement or not) huge advertisement campaign of own weapon, which is not as shit as russians, and not as expensive and politically limited as amerimutt's