All Pakistani F-16s are accounted for: US Govt buries Indian propaganda.

[Pak-Canuck]

sinking in to everyone now LOL BOHOT ZALEEL HOYE HAIN AAJ!!!!

 

[randomradio]

Okay, so when 'A' US Official from the State Dept. clears that NO F-16 was shot down, what is your response gonna be?

Just wanna hear the excuses for that in advance.

A news can be considered reliable when the source is named.

Apparently you have no shame left.

So asking for a source requires shame? Why doesn't the PAF Chief come out himself and say with his own words that no F-16 was lost?

 

[PurpleButcher]

Final nail in the coffin

https://twitter.com/x/status/1114183187054366720

Updated part below

One of the senior U.S. defense officials with direct knowledge of the count said that Pakistan invited the United States to physically count its F-16 planes after the incident as part of an end-user agreement signed when the foreign military sale was finalized. Generally in such agreements, the United States requires the receiving country to allow U.S. officials to inspect the equipment regularly to ensure it is accounted for and protected. Some of Pakistan’s F-16s were acquired from Jordan through a third-party transfer, but even these are subject to the end-user agreement, said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with the Teal Group, an aerospace and defense firm.

“If you are a user of American defense products … you need to go through a very clear process to send those weapons to a third party,” explained Aboulafia, noting that the United States has a rigid process in place to try to ensure its equipment does not fall into the hands of “hostile actors.”

 

[Joe Shearer]

awww poor boy last month must have been really hard on you.

Why?

To bhai jan dekh ker missile ka bitton dabao na

There is an enquiry on; let us wait for it to finish. Sab to aap jaise chaukas nahin hain.

 

[d00od00o]

None of Pakistan's F-16 fighter jets missing after US count: Report
"Finding by US on the ground in Pakistan "directly contradicts" India's claim that its air force shot down an F-16 fighter jet during an dogfight," report said.
WASHINGTON: A US count of the F-16s with Pakistan has found that none of them are missing, contradicting India's claim that one of its fighter jets shot down a Pakistani F-16 during an aerial dogfight on February 27, a leading American magazine reported Thursday.

Two senior US defense officials with direct knowledge of the situation told the Foreign Policy magazine that American personnel recently counted Islamabad's F-16s and found none of the planes missing.

"The findings directly contradict the account of Indian Air Force officials, who said that Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman managed to shoot down a Pakistani F-16 before his own plane was downed by a Pakistani missile," the report said.

"It is possible that in the heat of combat, Varthaman, flying a vintage MiG-21 Bison, got a lock on the Pakistani F-16, fired, and genuinely believed he scored a hit," the report said.

The report said that evidence also suggests that Pakistan's F-16s were involved in the aerial battle with the Indian Air Force and only the F-16 can shoot a US-made AIM-120 air-to-air missile.

When the incident occurred, India asked the US government to investigate whether Pakistan's use of the F-16 against India violated the terms of the foreign military sale agreements.

The Indian Air Force on February 28 displayed pieces of the AMRAAM missile, fired by a Pakistani F-16, as evidence to "conclusively" prove that Pakistan deployed US-manufactured F-16 fighter jets during an aerial raid targeting Indian military installations in Kashmir.

According to the magazine, Pakistan invited the US to physically count its F-16 planes after the incident as part of an end-user agreement signed when the foreign military sale was finalised.

Some of the aircraft were not immediately available for inspection due to the conflict, so it took US personnel several weeks to account for all of the jets, one US official said.

But now the count has been completed, and "all aircraft were present and accounted for," the official said.

"A US count of Pakistan's F-16 fleet has found that all the jets are present and accounted for, a direct contradiction to India's claim that it shot down one of the fighter jets during a February clash," Lara Seligman of the magazine reported.

The count of the F-16 fighter planes in Pakistan has been completed, and "all aircraft were present and accounted for," an unnamed defence official was quoted as saying by the report.

The US Department of Defence did not immediately respond to a question on its count of F-16 fighter jets in Pakistan.

The US State Department and the Indian and Pakistani embassies declined to comment, the report said.

Pakistan had categorically said that no F-16 fighter jets were used and denied that one of its planes had been downed by the IAF.

But on April 1, Pakistan military spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor for the first time indicated that F-16s might have been used to hit Indian fighter jets during the aerial combat on February 27.

In a statement, he said Pakistan had the right to use "anything and everything" in its self defence.

He further said: "Even if F-16 have been used as at that point in time complete PAF was airborne including F16s, the fact remains that Pakistan Air Force shot down two Indian jets in self defence."

The report said the remnants of a US-made AIM-120 air-to-air missile was found near the site; out of all the aircraft involved, only the F-16 can shoot such a weapon.

"As details come out, it looks worse and worse for the Indians," Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Vipin Narang told the Foreign Policy magazine.

"It looks increasingly like India failed to impose significant costs on Pakistan, but lost a plane and a helicopter of its own in the process," he said.

Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror group killed 40 CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on February 14.

India launched a counter-terror operation against a JeM training camp in Balakot. The next day, Pakistan Air Force retaliated and downed a MiG-21 in an aerial combat and captured its pilot Wing Commander Varthaman, who was handed over to India on March 1 in an effort to de-escalate the crisis.

 

[CrazyZ]

From where do you think they found the remains of Aim120?

The Su30mki wreckage. Are we sure it was an aim120? It could have been spray painted sukhoi scrap.

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

where as in 1971 more than 33% of PAF staff was Bengali, they (except M M Alam) betrayed PAF

So it means PAF pilots who were Bengalis they deliberatily let themselves shot by IAF when flying the jets?

 

[Imran Khan]

Why?



There is an enquiry on; let us wait for it to finish. Sab to aap jaise chaukas nahin hain.

Ram buali kary bus

 

[Kabotar]

Best Indian reply so far

 

[Jinn Baba]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1114185772398080000

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1114185772398080000

Legitimate concern

 

[Umar Nazir]

So it means PAF pilots who were Bengalis they deliberatily let themselves shot by IAF when flying the jets?

no but they certainly provide all the information regarding where PAF basis and where were our Radars and secondly when ur seniors skilled staff betrayed u, the juniors took their place with less skills and experience ?

 

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Best Indian reply so farView attachment 551447

C in F-16C basically means China?

 

[Pak-Canuck]

Best Indian reply so farView attachment 551447

BAS KARO YAAR, I'm gonna piss in my pants laughing. They have gone fully mentally retarded. Borrowed F-16's from china

 

[Jinn Baba]

The Indians still have a hand to play - I think Abhinandan callsign "Chaiwala" will be making a statement. If this doesnt happen, it means we have recorded statements of him OR he was a Su30 pilot.

Baychara is still imprisoned in India. Wonder why Indians dont question his absence or why he is not being allowed to return home. Does anyone really buy that he chose to go sit at an airbase?