You didnt. I dont know who this French official is but he is saying based on reports from Pakistan. Read this and I want you to read this carefully:
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After India launched ‘Operation Sindoor’ on terror training camps in Pakistan to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack, Islamabad claimed that it had downed India’s most advanced Rafale fighter jet, not one but three.
However, Pakistan has not given any video evidence or even an image of the downed Indian fighters yet. There is one unverified video circulating on social media where the underwing section of an aircraft is filmed by the locals. Open Source intelligence platforms are claiming it to be the underwing section of the Rafale fighter.
Further, some social media accounts
posted pictures of the wreckage of an aircraft bearing serial number 001, claiming that this was India’s first Dassault Rafale EH fighter jet. The pictures were allegedly taken in the Indian city of Bathinda.
Defense analyst and an avid PLA watcher, Rick Joe, also
posted videos allegedly from Bathinda in India that claim to show the engine of the crashed fighter jet. Joe said that from the distinct nozzle screw pattern on the engine, it looks like a part of M88 (Indian Rafale jet’s engine) and not M53 (Indian Mirage 2000’s engine).
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However, in another tweet a few hours later, he seemed to doubt his own theory.
Additionally, the BS-001 image of the claimed Rafale fighter first appeared in September 2004.
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A Chinese media outlet, Global Times, claimed that Pakistan had shot down three Indian fighter jets. However, the claims were refuted by the Indian Embassy in China.
“Dear Global Times, we would recommend you verify your facts and cross-examine your sources before pushing out this kind of disinformation,” the Indian embassy in China said in a
post on X.
Some Pakistan-affiliated accounts on the social media platform X are also posting videos of a crashed Indian
MiG-29. However, the video is from September 2024, when the IAF lost a MiG-29 in the Barmer sector in Rajasthan.
The Press Information Bureau (PIB) also refuted these claims.
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“An old image showing a crashed aircraft is being re-circulated by pro-Pakistan handles in various forms in the current context of #OperationSindoor,” Press Information Bureau’s (PIB) Fact Check handle
said on X, adding that the image is from an earlier incident involving an Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-29 fighter jet that crashed in Rajasthan’s Barmer in September 2024.
According to
PIB, another image circulating on social media shows a crashed IAF MiG-21 fighter in Moga district in Punjab in 2021.
Some accounts on platform X claimed that the downed fighter was not a Rafale but a Mirage-2000, another French-made fighter aircraft.
Meanwhile, Indian media outlet The Hindu
tweeted that three Indian fighter jets have crashed in the Akhnoor sector of Jammu and Kashmir. However, the tweet was later deleted.
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US media outlet CNN
quoted Pakistani defense sources as claiming that they have shot down five Indian fighter jets, including three Rafale jets, one MiG-29, and one Su-30MKI fighter jet.
AFP news agency published an image of an aircraft wreckage lying in a field next to a red-brick building. However, it could not be ascertained which air force this fighter jet belonged to.
Meanwhile, speaking in the Pakistani parliament, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also claimed that they have shot down five Indian fighter jets, including three Rafales.
He further claimed that as many as 80 Indian aircraft participated in the operation.
“About 75-80 Indian fighter jets” were part of the offensive, he said, adding that India also lost a couple of drones.
In a statement to reporters, Pakistani security officials said their forces downed three French-built Rafale fighter jets, one MiG-29, one Su-30MKI, and an Israeli-made Heron drone, describing the action as taken “in self-defense.”
The claim was reiterated by Pakistan’s military spokesperson, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary, who listed the same aircraft in a video statement released through Reuters. No details were provided about the precise locations or methods of the alleged shootdowns.
However, due to the multiple claims swirling on social media and the lack of evidence or confirmation from official sources, the EurAsian Times can not independently verify any of these claims at this moment.
It is worth noting that earlier, Pakistan had
claimed that it had jammed four Indian Rafale fighters flying close to the Line of Control (LoC) on the night of April 29-30, forcing them to retreat and make emergency landings. Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif claimed that Pakistan jammed Indian Rafale fighters using Chengdu J-10C fighters.
However, the reports remained unverified.
The Indian Army has confirmed the multiple strikes on terror camps in Pakistan, but has not acknowledged that Pakistan shot down any of its fighter jets. A senior IAF official spoke with the EurAsian Times on condition of anonymity and refuted Pakistani claims that an Indian fighter jet had been shot down by Pakistan.
“All our pilots are safely back home,” the IAF official said. However, the official did not say that all our fighter jets are safely back home.
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Since it is already more than twelve hours since the air strikes were launched, it is hard to believe that so far, Pakistan has not been able to find any credible evidence of the downed Indian aircraft.
The Pakistani armed forces, already facing a loss of credibility and reputation, as India was able to strike deep inside Pakistani territory despite the Pakistani armed forces being on high alert and anticipating an Indian attack, would have been eager to showcase to the world the video evidence of the downed fighter.
If confirmed, this would be the first loss of an Indian Rafale fighter jet. The IAF has 36 Rafale fighter jets in its arsenal, brought in a government-to-government contract in 2016. This would also be IAF’s first combat loss since Balakot 2019, when the IAF lost a MiG-21 Bison in an air duel with Pakistan.
Last month, India and France also inked an agreement to purchase 26 Rafale-M, the naval variant of the fighter jet, in a Rs 63,000 crore (approx. $7.5B) deal.
After India launched ‘Operation Sindoor’ on terror training camps in Pakistan to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack, Islamabad claimed that it had downed India’s most advanced Rafale fighter jet, not one but three. However, Pakistan has not given any video evidence or even an image of the downed...
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.... That's another social media guy who wants a lot of new follower and no better way to do it than sing Maha Bharat chimes. He needs an update on new 3 destroyed Rafael and other Indian jets...
Bhakts are panicking hard...dhooti loongi geeli session happening in full swing 
