US media report says all of Pakistan's F-16s intact; IAF rebuts

IAF maintains it shot down an F-16 aircraft during Feb 27 clash

The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday contradicted a report by US publication Foreign Policy that implied India had falsely claimed to have shot down a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) F-16 when fighter aircraft from the two sides clashed on February 27 over Jammu and Kashmir. Foreign Policy cites senior American defence officials as stating that US personnel had “recently counted Islamabad’s F-16s and found none missing”.
 
An IAF statement on Friday repeated what it had said earlier: “During the aerial engagement… one MiG-21 Bison of the IAF shot down, one F-16 in Nowshera sector.”
 
“The Indian forces