Kim James 
The imperative government has shared with the United States evidence of the fighter jet added down via an IAF jet in an aerial dogfight over the LoC on Wednesday to bolster its case about the misuse of the fighter aircraft in opposition to India.
New Delhi: Two days after the Indian Air Force displayed components of an AMRAAM past visual variety air-to-air missile as evidence to “conclusively” prove that Pakistan deployed US-manufactured F-16 fighter jets at some point of an aerial raid concentrated on Indian army installations in Kashmir, the USA has said that it’s far searching for more records at the equal.
“We are aware of those reviews and are in search of greater records,” a US embassy spokesperson informed News18 when asked whether Pakistan had violated any laws in its use of American-made defense gadgets in its airstrikes on India. India’s display of the AMRAAM missile got here a day after Pakistan claimed that no F-sixteen fighter jets had been used and denied that one of its planes was downed with the aid of the Indian Air Force.
The vital government has shared with the US evidence of the fighter jet introduced down by way of IAF pilot, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, in an aerial dogfight over the Line of Control on Wednesday to strengthen its case approximately misuse of the fighter plane in opposition to India.
Publicly to be had files screen that the US has imposed almost a dozen limit on Pakistan related to its use of F-16. According to Pentagon’s Defense Security and Cooperation Agency (DSCA), F-sixteen jets have been meant for use to “decorate Pakistan’s potential to conduct counter-insurgency and counterterrorism operations.” Documents inside the public domain suggest that Pakistan has certainly bought the AMRAAM missiles, which can best be fired from an F-16, also offered by Pakistan from the United States.
IN 2016, the US Congress had written to the then Obama administration over the sale of F16s, pronouncing that Pakistan’s behavior had not changed and that it turned into no longer anybody’s hobby to Pakistan’s defense functionality considering its alleged complicity in terrorist activity. The sale, but, went via. Pakistan has been taking deliveries of the F-16s, now synthetic, using Lockheed Martin from America because of the early 80s.
