{"id":311046,"date":"2019-04-05T15:06:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T15:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311046"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:19:24","slug":"pakistani-f-16-was-shot-down-says-indian-air-force-refutes-us-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistani-f-16-was-shot-down-says-indian-air-force-refutes-us-media-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani F-16 was shot down, says Indian Air Force; refutes US media report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311047 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Pak-F-16-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/Pak-F-16-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/Pak-F-16.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Indian Air Force (IAF) again on Friday said that F-16 aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force was shot down on February 27 during an aerial dogfight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Indian Forces have confirmed sighting ejections at two different places on that day. The two sightings were at places separated by at least 8-10 km. One was an IAF MIG 21 Bison and other a PAF aircraft. Electronic signatures gathered by us indicate PAF aircraft was an F-16,\u201d IAF said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman shot down Pakistan Air Force F-16 aircraft 7-8 km inside Pakistan Occupied Area in Sabzkot area there,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, IAF sources confirmed that radio communication of Pakistan Air Force intercepted by it confirmed that one of the F-16s that attacked India on February 27 did not return to its base.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The IAF statement came after the Foreign Policy magazine reported that the US count of the F-16s with Pakistan had found that none of them were missing, contradicting India\u2019s claim that one of its fighter jets shot down a Pakistani F-16 during aerial combat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) again on Friday said that F-16 aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force was shot down on February 27 during an aerial dogfight. \u201cThe Indian Forces have confirmed sighting ejections at two different places on that day. The two sightings were at places separated by at least 8-10 km. One was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":311047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2047,574,11228,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311048,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311046\/revisions\/311048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}