After getting the shock and surprise of their life, the Indians came up with an absurd excuse by waving to the media a wreckage piece of said to be from an AIM-120C AMRAAM Missile with claims that it was fired from a PAF F-16. Since Pakistani authorities said that no F-16s wetre used in the operation, so in hindsight the Indians were crying to the Americans that your weapons in Pakistani hands are killing us. Although it's not difficult to stencil the markings on any piece of wreckage and the serial number leads it to a batch supplied to Taiwan with whom Pakistan has no diplomatic relations, none the less, PAF does have these missiles in it's armoury. It's also ironic that a weapon travelling over Mach-3 which disintegrates upon impact still had such a part intact and that too where all the details are apparent.
However, lets assume this is indeed a piece from an AMRAAM fired by a PAF F-16 at an Indian target, we know one Indian MiG-21 went down inside Pakistan so this piece couldn't have been from that and was recovered from Indian side of LOC, which can only mean that the victim of the said missile also went down on the Indian side. Although there are several eyewitnesses who claim to have seen at least two aircraft going down, one on each side of the LOC, Indian authorities, however, haphazardly have so far admitted to losing just one MiG-21 which they said went down in Pakistan. So the question remains, where did the Indians recovered the wreckage of the missile. It's obviously an air to air weapon so hitting some ground target with it is out of question. Which only leaves the possibility that whatever this missile struck, it went down on the Indian side. Now was that the helicopter which same day crashed some where in IOK or was it something more prized which the Indians feel too embarrassed to disclose.
So in essence by waving this piece of missile wreckage, the Indians have thus shot themselves in the foot by revealing a second loss....what it was is anyone's guess.
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