Even before the fog of war began to rise, the stock of Chengdu Aircraft Company began to soar.

Nearly three decades after the first time going into the sky, the fierce dragon of the Chinese aircraft manufacturer's first fighter, J-10, finally saw the battle - and survived.

By 4 a.m. on May 7, Chinese diplomats in Islamabad served as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from the first standoff between modern Chinese fighter jets, filled with missiles and radars that were untested in combat, as well as advanced Western hardware deployed by India.

With the installation of the evidence, although inconclusive, a Pakistani pilot could shoot down a gust jet made by India-France, while the stock price of Chengdu is more than 40% in just two days.

"There is nothing better advertising than a real battle situation," said Yun Sun, a Chinese military affairs expert at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. "It was a surprise for China...the result was surprising."

While India and Pakistan may have been involved in their deepest skirmishes over decades, the conflict is also a reason to test devices that are crucial to different competition, the basis for testing between China and the U.S.-led Western alliance.

According to estimates from the Stockholm Institute for Peace and International Strategic Institute, about 81% of Pakistan's military equipment comes from China, including more than half of its 400 fighter jets and ground attack aircraft.

This reflects the "all-weather friendship" established since the 1960s with Pakistan, attempts to and Indian rings. Andrew Small, a Pakistan-China relations expert at the Derman Marshall Foundation, said it provides Pakistani supplies to develop alongside China's own defense industry.

“Apart from cooperation with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, a lot of the things China offers used to be low-end stuff – tanks, artillery, small arms,” Small said. But now, Pakistan is "being a demonstration of some of China's new capabilities."

At the same time, with the development of its wealth and regional ambitions, India has become the world's largest importer of weapons.

Over the past decade, it has moved from its dependence on Russian suppliers to recent purchases in the United States, France and Israel, including sophisticated fighter jets, transport aircraft, and combat and surveillance drones.

"This is the most important global aspect - this is the first time that Chinese military equipment has been tested against Top Notch Western devices," said Sushant Singh, a lecturer in South Asia at Yale.

“Whenever it ends, the balance sheet will tell us what will happen in Taiwan, and Western defense companies should deal with the low cost and high-tech capabilities that the Chinese have shown.”

When countries join the war, their allies watch and learn. After Ukraine repelled nearly 50 miles of Russian armored pillars (tanks, armored vehicles and other decks), it was closely monitored by Indian diplomats in Kiev after it was repelled by modern, handheld British-American missiles.

“Is their opinion of Russian tanks true?

When Taiwan saw how effective the US-made medium-range precision missile system was, it lobbied to improve delivery of its own orders. By next year, it will have nearly 30 trucks of installed systems, which is more than Ukraine.

Even brief skirmishes, such as frequent wars between India and Pakistan, have a unique purpose. Enemies test each other, demonstrate their abilities, attempt to enforce existing red lines and set new lines.

They generate a lot of operational data that shapes the next small-scale conflict or wins the next war. Allies shared data and weapons manufacturers analyzed it and adjusted their weapons systems.

A man from New Delhi said the defense attachment from Chinese rivals is "impatient" so that India can share the radar and electronic signature of the J-10C in combat mode so that it can be trained for air defense capabilities.

Similarly, for China, this small-scale conflict is not only a test of the aircraft, but also a complex radar system (called active electronic scanning arrays) installed in the front of the aircraft. The battle tests its ability not only to search for threats, but also helps guide missiles.

Pakistan’s deputy director of aviation operations, Aurangbe Ahmed said the PL-15 variant was one of the missiles used in the skirmish this week. The hour-long engagement will be "studying in the classroom", bragging Ahmed. “We know something about these guys.”

Robert Tolllast, a researcher at the Royal Joint Services Institute in London, said the use of the PL-15E missile could be "very important". Indian media reported that the complete PL-15 has been discovered, providing an opportunity to study its secrets.

"If confirmed, we have now seen a demonstration of the Chinese-made AESA used in combat beyond the scope of possible conferences," he said.

Western countries and Russia have been fighting to test the version of its ASA version for decades. Trust said there are only details of this skirmish (for example, how many missiles were fired to successfully hit the target - "can be very useful for the Chinese to evaluate the ability of such a weapon".

Neither the Chinese Foreign Ministry nor Chengdu aircraft responded to requests for comment.

On the other side of the ledger, the success of Indian missiles – many of which were reportedly French scalp missiles – found their targets to indicate weaknesses and scarcity of Pakistan’s air defense.

Pakistan is known to deploy China's HQ-9 system, which lags behind the maturity of the Russian S-400s and is at the high end of Indian stocks.

"The fact is that even at extreme heights of alert, Indian missiles have not been found to penetrate Pakistani airspace," said New Delhi's national security at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

According to the Indian military, India's retaliation is targeting Pakistan's "air defense radar and systems at many locations in Pakistan."

"It's a very precise display of very high-end capabilities - dispelling defensive capabilities, not actual goals," said a senior Western diplomat in Delhi. "It's a carefully calibrated warning - it says, look, if we can lock it from your door, we can get into the house anytime, anywhere."

Both India and Pakistan have gained key details about their competitors’ advantages in past conflicts and identified their own weaknesses.

After India successfully regained territory in the Himalayas in 1999 from Pakistani occupation, internal inquiries revealed that Mig worked hard to manipulate Russian aging fleet in the mountain pass, or found a target in the snow that escaped the shoulders on the shoulders.

Within three days before India turned to the French Sea, three aircraft were shot down - the Indian Air Force deployed precision and laser missiles for the first time and moved from Russia to western aircraft.

Similarly, India responded to the 2019 killing of 40 security personnel in an air strike by an armed Pakistani group in Pakistan, which not only lost the Mig 21 aircraft, but its troops mistakenly knocked down a helicopter in a friendly fire incident, killing seven people.

“The officers of the Pakistani army took great care of me – they were thorough gentlemen,” the captured pilot said in a propaganda video before release. “The tea is great.”

The two events underscore India’s lack of adequate airborne early warning and control systems – aircraft flying at high altitudes, carrying complex radars and sensors that can detect enemy aircraft, missiles and drones in range.

However, India’s bureaucratic challenges make every skirmish difficult and inefficient compared to Pakistan’s simpler procurement system, which has a major supplier – China – and a military dominated in the country.

It was not until March this year that India issued a notice of "acceptance necessity" to the convoys of such early warning aircraft in Triple India.

"If these short-selling air retaliation lasts for a long time, India will be desperate to feel its absence," said New Delhi's second Western defense annex.

"If it turns out that India lost a French jet from a Chinese missile fired from a distance of more than 100 kilometers, then this is obviously urgent."