{"id":268541,"date":"2019-04-09T05:59:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T05:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=268541"},"modified":"2019-04-09T05:59:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T05:59:30","slug":"iaf-claims-irrefutable-evidence-of-shooting-down-pakistan-f-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-claims-irrefutable-evidence-of-shooting-down-pakistan-f-16\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF claims &#8216;irrefutable evidence&#8217; of shooting down Pakistan F-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India on Monday said it has &#8220;irrefutable evidence&#8221; that it shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in an aerial combat on February 27, responding after an American news publication doubted its claim.<\/p>\n<p>Air Vice Marshal R G K Kapoor showed journalists radar images to prove Indian Air Force&#8217;s (IAF) claim. &#8220;The IAF has irrefutable evidence of not only the fact that F-16 was used by Pakistan Air Force on February 27, but also that an IAF Mig 21 Bison shot down a Pakistan Air Force F-16,&#8221; Kapoor said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no doubt that two aircraft went down in the aerial engagement on February 27, one of which was a Bison of IAF while the other was an F-16 of PAF conclusively identified by its electronic signature and radio transcripts,&#8221; he said without taking questions.<\/p>\n<p>The IAF has more credible evidence that the F-16 was brought down, but couldn&#8217;t make it public because of &#8220;security and confidentiality concerns&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Monday said it has &#8220;irrefutable evidence&#8221; that it shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in an aerial combat on February 27, responding after an American news publication doubted its claim. Air Vice Marshal R G K Kapoor showed journalists radar images to prove Indian Air Force&#8217;s (IAF) claim. &#8220;The IAF has irrefutable evidence of not only the fact that F-16 was used by Pakistan Air Force on February 27, but also that an IAF Mig 21 Bison shot down a Pakistan Air Force F-16,&#8221; Kapoor said. &#8220;There is no doubt that two aircraft went down in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}