US Counted Pakistan's F-16 Jets ,and Found None Missing.

US Counted Pakistan's F-16 Jets ,and Found None Missing. February 27 aerial battle. According to Foreign Policy, though India has repeatedly said that Wing Commander Abhinandan Vardhaman’s Mig-21 shot down an F-16 in a dogfight before his own plane went down, US personnel recently counted Islamabad’s F-16s – and found none missing.

Following the air battle, which led to the capture of Vardhaman by Pakistani forces, the external affairs ministry had said that “one Pakistan Air Force fighter aircraft was shot down by a MiG 21 Bison of the Indian Air Force. The Pakistani aircraft was seen by ground forces falling from the sky on the Pakistan side.” Pakistan’s military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor, however, denied that any F-16 had been shot and added that in the Pakistan Air Force operations that day, no F-16 had been deployed. The Pakistani claim that no F-16s had been deployed was refuted by India, which presented fragments of an AMRAAM air-to-air missile that had been recovered on the Indian side of the Line of Control. The AMRAAM can only be used by F-16s. However, India was unable to present any physical evidence to back up its claim of having downed an F-16.