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The French Navy has issued a beardown rebuttal of Pakistan-based Geo TV’s “misinformation and disinformation” concerning Operation Sindoor. French authoritative statements described claims by the transmission arsenic “fabricated.”
The clarification came aft Geo published an nonfiction connected November 21 alleging that a French naval serviceman had confirmed Pakistan’s aerial superiority and claimed that Indian Rafale jets had been changeable down during caller borderline skirmishes.
According to the French Navy, the statements attributed to “Captain Jacquis Launay” were wholly fabricated. The officer’s close sanction is Captain Yvan Launay, and helium “never consented to immoderate signifier of publication,” the Navy said.
No relation successful Indian missions
The Navy noted that contrary to Geo TV’s assertions, Captain Launay’s responsibilities are constricted to commanding the French Navy’s naval aerial presumption wherever Rafale Marine craft are based. He does not clasp immoderate authorization oregon operational penetration into India-related missions.
During a nonrecreational briefing, Captain Launay presented details astir the assets astatine his base, the Rafale combatant jet’s capabilities, and the French bearer onslaught radical concept. When questioned astir Operation Sindoor, helium neither confirmed nor denied whether Indian craft had been changeable down — contradicting Geo TV’s assertion that helium had affirmed specified losses.
The French Navy besides clarified that Launay refused to remark connected questions regarding imaginable Chinese jamming of Indian Rafale jets, different assertion incorrectly attributed to him.
The French clarification stated that Captain Launay expressed his constituent of presumption arsenic a combatant aviator connected the cognitive overload that pilots tin look successful aerial combat owed to the ample magnitude of accusation coming into the cockpit, which tin pb to a alteration successful situational awareness, careless of the fig of aircraft.
