This was the best report I saw so far, and the link has several videos taken by civilians near where the missiles struck. If accurate, the Chinese air to air missiles were quite effective. While India tried to show some restraint, Pakistan struck back pretty hard so will India be satisfied with the result.
https://southfront.press/india-attacks-pakistan-losses-five-fighter-jets-videos/
India launched strikes against Pakistan on May 7 and Pakistan claimed that it shot down five Indian Air Force fighter jets, in the most serious confrontation between the two nuclear powers in more than two decades.
Tensions have been mounting between the two countries since the April 22 terrorist attack on the resort town of Pahalgam in India’s Jammu and Kashmir province. The Resistance Front claimed responsibility for the attack, which left 28 people dead. However, New Delhi held Islamabad responsible, citing the group’s links to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group.
In an initial response, India expelled Pakistani diplomats, closed border crossings, and even halted a vital water-sharing agreement. The last move, never before taken even during full-on wars. From its side, Pakistan closed its airspace to Indian flights and suspended bilateral trade.
The latest escalation saw the Indian military launching “Operation Sindoor” in the early hours of May 7 in both Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Sindoor is a Hindi word for the bright red vermillion powder worn by married Hindu women on their forehead and hair. The operation codename was apparently chosen to refer to the women who saw their husbands killed in front of them in Pahalgam.
Nine sites, not including any Pakistani civilian, economic or military facilities, were targeted, two Indian military spokespersons told a briefing in New Delhi, adding that the 25-minute operation targeted “terrorist infrastructure” belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba and another military group known as Jaish-e-Mohammed.
The spokesman noted that the Indian military used niche technology weapons and carefully chose warheads to avoid collateral damage to civilians and civilian infrastructure, but did not elaborate on the specifics or methods used in the strikes.
“Intelligence and monitoring of Pakistan-based terror modules showed that further attacks against India were impending, therefore it was necessary to take pre-emptive and precautionary strikes,” Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, the top official in its external affairs ministry, told the briefing.
French-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles and AASM Hammer glide bombs were reportedly the weapons employed by the Indian military.
The strikes hit six locations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in the country’s eastern Punjab province, said Pakistan’s military spokesperson, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif.
“Until now 26 innocent civilians have been martyred in attacks,” said another Pakistani military spokesman, Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.
The Pakistani military said that it had shot down five Indian fighter jets, including three French-made Rafales and two Russian-made Su-30MKI and MiG-29, inside India, in addition to an Israeli-made IAI Heron combat drone, adding: “They attacked Pakistan.”
There was no immediate comment from India about Pakistan’s claim, although Reuters said that at least three aircraft crashed in separate areas of the Himalayan region in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir. Videos posted to social networks later seemed to confirm that at least one Rafale was downed.
Chinese-made JF-17 Block III and J-10C fighter jets of the Pakistan Air Force were reportedly responsible for the Indian aerial losses. Chinese PL-15 long-range air-to-air missiles. which were showcased by Pakistan very recently, were allegedly used.
Indian media claimed that a Pakistani JF-17 was shot down while trying to intrude into Indian airspace. There was no comment from the Pakistani military.
In addition, the Pakistani military announced that it had shelled a brigade headquarters and several other sites of the Indian military.
The Indian police and medics said 11 civilians were killed and 49 wounded by Pakistani shelling in Poonch district, which lies close to the highly militarized Line of Control, the de facto border that divides disputed Kashmir between the two countries.
The United States, Russia and China all called on India and Pakistan to engage in diplomacy and exercise restraint in separate statements.
Still, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that his country “has every right” to respond, calling India’s operation an “act of war.” The premier’s office announced later that the Pakistani military had been authorized to undertake corresponding actions.
While neither country appears to be interested in an all-out war, a response by Pakistan could further expand the ongoing confrontation.