India, June 1 -- India lost fighter jets during the early phase of last month's military confrontation with Pakistan due to tactical errors that were later corrected, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan said on Saturday.

Speaking during interviews on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, General Chauhan confirmed that Indian Air Force (IAF) jets were downed in the opening hours of the conflict, but did not say how many were lost.

"What is important is not the jet being down, but why they were being downed. What mistakes were made - those are important. Numbers are not important," Chauhan told Bloomberg TV.

"The good part is that we were able to understand the tactical mistake which we made, remedy it, rectify i...