IAF refutes U.S. report denying shooting down Pakistan F-16 Jet |
The Indian Air Force has reiterated that the plane shot down in an aerial engagement by a Mig-21 in Nowshera sector on Feb. 27 was an F-16, rejecting a claim in a report that none of the Pakistan Air Force`s U.S.-supplied jets was found missing after a recent count. The IAF said that Indian forces have confirmed sighting the ejection at two different places on that day (Feb. 27). The two sightings were at places separated by at least 8-10 km. One was of an IAF Mig-21 Bison and the other a PAF aircraft. "Electronic signatures gathered by us indicate PAF aircraft was F-16," said the IAF, sticking to its earlier version of the sequence of events.The clarification came after Foreign Policy cited unnamed U.S. officials to claim that the F-16 fleet of PAF was counted and no jet was found to be missing.
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