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India.com
5 days ago
- India.com
Operation Sindoor: Pakistan Unleashed NATO's Top-Secret Air Combat Tactic Against India – Taught By Chinese Pilots Trained By Western Defectors
New Delhi: When Pakistani fighter pilots scrambled into action during their counteroffensive against India's Operation Sindoor, they were not following a playbook of their own. The mission unfolding in the skies was scripted long before the first missile was fired, designed not in Islamabad, but across NATO's high-security airbases, inside China's military classrooms and deep within war-gaming simulators thousands of miles from South Asia. It was choreography. Not battlefield improvisation, but a calculated drill. A combat blueprint borrowed from the West, translated into Mandarin and flown under a Pakistani flag. According to a report by The Print, Pakistan had been trained by China in an advanced air warfare tactic that traces its roots to NATO doctrine. The disclosure has sparked unease in India's security circles as well as military headquarters across Europe and North America. At the centre of this alarm lies an unsettling realization that China may now hold the keys to the West's most prized aerial strategies. A NATO Trick, Reborn in Enemy Hands The technique has a name in modern air combat – 'Launch-and-Leave'. It is a lethal maneuver designed to deceive and survive while still hitting its mark. In this tactic, the attacking fighter does not wait around to guide its missile. It fires and vanishes, leaving the missile in flight. Then, a second aircraft with superior radar takes over, guiding the missile all the way to the kill. Western pilots developed this for hostile skies, where hanging around a few seconds too long meant certain death. NATO has drilled this maneuver into its elite squadrons for decades. Now, Pakistani jets are flying it. Who Gave China the Manual? This is where the story darkens. China did not invent this method. It learned it by recruiting former pilots from the very countries now watching in horror. For years, Beijing has lured ex-fighter pilots from elite NATO air forces, especially from the Five Eyes alliance that comprises of the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Insiders say China offered enormous payouts to retired pilots, particularly from Britain. Some accepted. In 2022, the U.K. Ministry of Defence admitted publicly that around 30 former Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots had gone to China to train the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). They were veterans entrusted with NATO's most sensitive combat doctrine. And now, that doctrine is taking flight over South Asia. China Trained, Pakistan Executed The report suggests that during Operation Sindoor, Pakistan used a combination of Chinese-made J-10 fighter jets and Swedish Saab 2000 AEW&C surveillance aircraft to execute coordinated attacks using this very tactic. While the J-10s fired, the Saab aircraft, with its advanced radar suite, likely played the hidden guiding role in the launch-and-leave sequence. Experts believe this was not a spur-of-the-moment decision. It was practiced, rehearsed and perfected, not in Pakistan's tribal regions or under its own command, but in Chinese war rooms, with manuals printed in Mandarin and simulators tailored to mimic South Asian terrain. China did not only pass on the hardware. It also trained the reflexes. It embedded the instincts. The West Watches, Uneasy What now worries intelligence agencies is that Beijing appears to have amassed an internal archive of NATO strategies. And it has done so not by hacking, but by hiring. If a conflict breaks out in the Indo-Pacific or even on another continent, China could predict the West's moves before they happen. It has studied their patterns, their decision-making and their kill signatures. And now, in some high-altitude outpost or desert runway, Pakistani pilots, wired with Chinese muscle memory, have flown that same script against India. A doctrine once born in Western skies may now return, weaponised and aimed right back at its creators.
Edmonton Journal
21-07-2025
- Business
- Edmonton Journal
How an Edmonton AI company alerts NATO, U.S. government to chaos hotspots
Imagine if you had the ability to quickly map all world chaos and then tell clients what hot spots to avoid or attend to. Article content An Edmonton company has used AI to do just that — and NATO, the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the U.S. government (and another 100 or so organizations) — are listening, says samdesk CEO and founder James Neufeld. Article content Article content 'One of the challenges that we saw universally across the private and public sector is they always felt they were one step behind. They found out maybe hours or days later,' Neufeld said at media conference last month with emergency management and community resilience minister Eleanor Olszewski. Article content Article content 'And from an emergency management standpoint, every second or every minute that goes by, it really erodes your ability to effectively respond. The wildfire grows, the crisis grows.' Article content Article content Billions of daily social media posts document real-time experiences. That wealth of intelligence can be powerful for emergency response — eyes and ears on the ground to know where to deploy resources. Article content Natural disaster? Vandalism? Wildfire? Volatile unrest in the streets? Article content Tipping in satellite imagery and other data sources from government, AI pattern-recognition technology correlates it all, spotting the chaos nuclei. Earlier signal, earlier mitigation. Article content Pointing to a large screen dashboard in action, Neufeld fascinated onlookers with a global view, quickly zooming in on northern Alberta. Article content Samdesk's mission is to warn clients: 'Hey, you have a piece of infrastructure that might be under this emergency,' or 'Power outage in Saskatchewan,' or 'Firm up your supply chains,' or even 'Evacuate!' Article content Article content Origins in news Article content Article content The development of the company was newsroom-inspired, from a decade of journalists watching social media for eyewitness information outside of government sources, Neufeld said. Article content 'It wasn't a single source anymore. It was becoming democratized,' he said, citing the coverage of the 2011 Arab Spring revolt and regional wildfires, where people on the ground documented the latest developments. Article content 'What we learned really was, while a lot of newsrooms called it breaking news, the rest of us probably called it something else. It was a crisis. It wasn't a story. It was a real, live situation. It was something that needed to be responded to, something that needed being managed,' he said.
Newsweek
04-06-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
NATO Ally Giving Ukraine 100K New Drones After Russian Airfield Strikes
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. The U.K. Ministry of Defence said it is increasing its drone supply to Ukraine tenfold, taking the total target for the coming year to 100,000, after Kyiv's stunning Operation Spiderweb saw drones destroy Moscow's strategic bombers deep inside Russian territory. This is a breaking news story. Updates to follow.
