AMN / VADODRA
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today rejected the recent media report on F-16 fighter aircraft of Pakistan.
Addressing the press conference here, she said that the writers of the article should do proper study of the ‘technical and factual’ evidences provided by the Indian Air Force to concretely prove the use of F-16 by Pakistan to target the Indian military installations.
Ms Sitharaman said that the electronic signature of the aircraft intercepted by IAF radars was that of an F-16 fighter plane.
This electronic signature, which is a kind of vibration or radiation during flight, is unique for every aircraft like the human signature. It was pretty clear that the electronic signature intercepted by IAF was that of an F-16.
The defence minister was referring to the media report in a Foreign Policy magazine in US, which claimed that all the F-16 fighter planes given by America to Pakistan have been found to be ‘intact and accounted for’ during a recent physical count.
Ms. Sitharaman said that our Air Force had shown pieces of AMRAAM missile found on the Indian soil prior to air strike.
This missile can be fitted only on F-16. How such a missile reached the Indian soil, if F-16 was not used. She said that the writer and others associated with the US magazine should study the factual and technical evidences provided by the IAF in this regard.