India’s military has acknowledged for the first time that an unspecified number of its fighter jets were shot down during strikes on Pakistani-controlled territory amid intense fighting between the neighbors in early May.

India switched tactics after suffering losses in the air on the first day of conflict with Pakistan earlier this month and established a decisive advantage before the neighbours announced a ceasefire three days later,

What is important (for India) is not the jet being down, but why they were down,’ Indian Chief of Defense Staff Anil Chauhan tells Bloomberg TV - Anadolu Ajansı