His communications may be jammed, not his aircraft, or visibility.
HE was dangerously close to PAF jets and He could have very well fire R-73 WVR heat seeking missiles on PAF bogies nearby or he actually did fire and shot down a F-16 as India claims.
THis questions Pakistani assertion that they had missile locks on nine IAF jets flying well inside India while the one they shot down (Abhi's mig21) had come dangerously close before being shot down.
His comms were jammed then how come, as per you guys, Abhi delivered the message that R-73 was locked?
As for the F-16 claim, IAF is just defending a lie that the world does not believe.
1. US did their count of the F-16 fleet
-Indians produced this article from Hindustan times that quotes state dept official saying he was not aware. first off, "Not Aware" does not mean did not happen, it is just refusal to comment.
Secondly, this statement could not be verified by any independent source (No press briefing/statement by the DOD or State department), In fact, As per washington post
"The Pentagon, like the State Department, has yet to issue a public statement on the F-16 count, but there have been no counter-leaks contradicting the Foreign Policy report"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ary-this-just-became-big-deal/?outputType=amp
FP report was covered by numerous international media outlets unlike the made-up-story by Hindustan times
2. PAF Produced all MIG-21's missiles and openly invited any analyst to inspect.
- Indians claim PAF procured these LIVE missiles from eBay, i mean seriously? Open source videos and photos show all those missiles lying around the wreckage of MIG-21. Had PAF already purchased them before Feb 27, cuz they know something like that would happen.
IAF invited the most anti-pak analyst they could find, to their military literature festival, and turned out even she did not like the hilarious stories of IAF. The world needs evidence to believe.
As for Mig-21, Most likely, Wg Cdr Noman, waited long enough for him to get inside Pakistani side for chance to claim the pilot as well the wreckage, something actually to show to the world instead of empty bold claims. Nevertheless, i believe he was hit by an AMRAAM, so the F-16 had a reasonable distance from the MIG-21.