This is John Batchel. Comment by colleague Jim Fennell, United States Navy retired, aviator and intelligence officer,

about evidence of a Chinese-made air-d-air missile on the ground with serial numbers that identifies it as a very long range over-the-horizon air-d-air missile, kind that the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force have routinely.

The challenge here is to update our understanding of the Pakistani Air Force's capabilities.

There's a video that Jim has provided as well as his comments that shows a very, very modern and present condition at the Air Force,

a command center, missiles, aircraft, and briefings very carefully done with equipment that did not exist, as Jim says,

quarter of a century ago. It looks Chinese. Jim identifies at least two of the warplanes as

Chinese origin, first-rate stuff, and India underestimates it at risk with the report from Pakistan of five Indian aircraft

warplanes brought down three French made, two Russian made. The India Air Force is now,

we can assume, recalculating Pakistan's capability.

Here's Jim Finnell to recover what he can from his journey more than 25 years ago

and compare it to the video that's provided.

Much more of this tonight. Wow.

Well, as I said in my note, I have been to Masur Air Base in 1997 when I was

embarked upon the USS Kitty Hawk, and we had come out of our three and a half months in

the Gulf, and we were doing a combined operation with the Pakistani Air Force. I flew into that

base. All of the Pakistani Air Force officers spoke the King's English.

It was a very strong historical tie to England and in the British Empire, if you will,

and they were professionals. But at that time, that was, you know, 28 years ago, the technology

that we're seeing in this video didn't exist then.

My supposition is that there's obviously some propaganda here and promote self-promotion,

but I think we would be wise to understand once again that we deflate the threat at our own

risk, and I think India is in that same category.

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