No Rafale was shot down in combat, but India had lost one jet due to technical failure, and probe into the incident is currently on, a French report quoting Dassault Aviation Chairman and CEO Eric Trappier said. The report said there was no enemy engagement involved in the incident.
The incident “occurred at an altitude of over 12,000 metres during an extended training mission, with no enemy involvement or hostile radar contact,” the report said.
Clarifying Pakistan's accusations that three Indian Dassault Rafales were reportedly shot down during Operation Sindoor, Trappier said these allegations were “inaccurate and unfounded”.
The report, which appeared on the French website Avion De Chasse, mentioned a press conference held on June 15, just a few days before the Paris Air Show, where Trappier had contested Pakistan's allegations.
During the press conference, the Dassault CEO formally refuted the idea of an operational failure. He specified that the Spectra electronic warfare systems had not recorded any hostile engagements during the time slot in question. Furthermore, the friend/foe identification devices and the flight logs transmitted to Dassault indicated no losses in actual combat, he said.
India had launched precision strikes under the name ‘Operation Sindoor’ on terror infrastructure in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan in May 2025, in response to the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians.
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