PAF said their F16C are based in southern territory, not near Kashmir. PAF said no F16 being used and US regulators inspected and clarified that PAF did not misuse their F16s under tight regulation of purchasing US equipments. PAF had HUD recordings and stated JF17s being used in the pursuit that entered foreign territory splashing 2x IAF fighters with SD10. Ever since then, demand for China weapons went up.
IAF Mirage 2000 all these while only flown for air to ground sorties while Mig29 and SU30MKI provided air cover. Old Mig21 only for patrol and training, obsolete for offensive roles.
bro I am telling OFFICIAL position
- Secondly F-16 are not deployed only in South of Pakistan but in central Pakistan as well in fact more F-16s are deployed in central Pakistan,
- Again they were correct to say that No F-16 were used in the OFFENSIVE Operation inside Indian Occupied Territories which were conducted by JF-17 and Mirage Jets
- There is no restriction on the use of F-16 again its OFFICIAL position, what you read in media is propaganda by India, only restriction is
not to use it with 3rd party without US permission.
- The Video which was officially shown is the Video of strike on Brigade headquarter of Indian Army recorded with
camera seeker of
H-4 stand-off weapon which as of now is configured ONLY with Mirage jet in PAF so video feed was received and recorded by Mirage Jet (old technology of late 1990s)
- JF-17 used indigenous Range Extension Kit with Mk-83 1000 lb bomb or (Mk-82 here I am mixing it up not quite sure) to strike assign targets
- JF-17 and F-16 both were performing BARCAP at our side of LOC
- Mirage-2000i is a Multi role aircraft and again it is official that 2 Mirage-2000i tried to counter PAF offensive package consist of JF-17 and Mirage Jets, JF-17 countered the Mirage-2000i of Indian Air Force and force them to leave the theater, even Indian media admitted the radar malfunction of both Indian Mirage jets and leaving the combate theater on this grounds
- JF-17 have data of multiple radarlocks to show against Indian Mirage Jets and as per some claim against Su-30 as well
- And now
this is my assessment that F-16 was prefered in BVR engagements that day because of its longer range AIM-120C-5 BVR missile, and
this is official that only 2 clearances were given that day to shot enemy aircrafts and both were given to F-16s
Last thing that it is J-10 topic so I will not post any further post related to JF-17 or PAF and IAF aerial engagement of Feb-27 of last year, my previous post and this post is posted just to clarify the confusion and to keep the record straight.
Regards,
