NEW DELHI – Shameless Indian Air Force responds over US defence officialsdisclosure over PAF F 16 Inventory intact after IAF lies of taking downPakistani fighter jet.
The Indian Air Force on Friday listed out a number of evidence which provethat the jet shot down by Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman in Februarywas an F-16 jet of the Pakistan Air Force.
Reacting to questions raised by a certain section of the US media, the IAFsaid that Wing Commander had shot down a PAF F-16 jet seven to eightkilometres inside Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir. News agency ANI, quoting IAFsources, reported that radio communication of Pakistan Air Forceintercepted confirms that one of the F-16s that attacked India on February27 did not return to its base.
The IAF also reportedly said that Indian forces had confirmed the sightingof ejections at two different places on the same day – one of an IAF MiG 21Bison and the other of a PAF jet. It is reported further that electronicsignatures gathered indicate that the PAF jet was a F-16.
Even as Pakistan claims that none of its F-16 jets were mobilised againstIndia, hard evidence points to the opposite. The armed forces, on February28, had also presented parts of an AMRAAM air-to-air missile which can onlybe fitted on to a F-16 jet among all jets with PAF.
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Earlier this week, news agency PTI even reported that Pakistan hasindicated it may have used F-16 against India after all.
“As regard Pakistan Air Force (PAF) action for strikes across Line ofControl, it was done by JF-17 from within Pakistan airspace,”said Pakistan’s military spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor. “Whether it wasF-16 or JF-17 which shot down 2 Indian aircraft is immaterial.”
An American news publication called Foreign Policy had, however, raisedquestions against IAF’s claims, only for IAF to reply with proof.
