And one of them was shot down. This is why DGISPR was blatantly denying that F 16s were involved.

One doesn’t prove the other. Give it some time and if one is indeed down evidence will surface. US keeps very close eye on it’s assets and a F-16 loss isn’t easy to hide.

AMRAAM production lots are usually multiple customers both domestic and foreign military sales.

Correct but are contract numbers also the same? FA867505C0070 I can only find for Taiwan.

Could anyone tell me what “the Centre” is? And sorry, I can never remember my lakhs and crores. What is Rs 8,000 crores expressed in US$, please?

Quick math: 1 crore = 10 Million. So 8000 crore is 80000 million Indian Rs and that would be around 1.7 billion USD.

Isn’t there a treaty between India and Pakistan about notifying each before hand about missile tests??

The treaty only covers ballistic missiles. India-Pakistan do not notify each other when testing cruise missiles.

Jagan, you sound like you know a bit about PAF history, do you know anything about the Attackers’ service?

The Attacker was in Pakistan Air Force service from 1950 till 1956. Even though, being the first jet fighter of PAF, it was not considered a good aircraft due to its handling characteristics. One senior PAF pilot once described it as “…the only thing this aircraft was good at was setting the grass on fire at Sargodha Air Base…”. It also had a poor safety record, so much so that once a mother of a young pilot came to the CO of the Attacker Sqn and asked him, if this (pointing towards the Attacker parked on the ramp) thing is safe to fly. To satisfy the mother the CO gave a demo of aircraft’s handling capabilities right then and there.
After retirement the aircraft might have been stored for couple of years and later most likely sold as scrap.

Saudi AF F-15 with a PAF Mirage-III during an exercise – 2006.

The JF-17s they are buying have probes. They could also buy probes to fit the receptacles of the F-16s (yes, there are such things), to enable them to use hoses, though the position of the receptacle makes that less than ideal.

There’s been talk of them fitting probes to some of their Mirages. Anyone know anything about that?

PAF has started fitting probes on Mirages. Have a look at the attached pictures taken during testing.

hi! can somebody here post a PAF’s F-16A Serial No. 82-723 which shoot down two Su-22s on single sortie in 1986? wanna see it’s kill marking. thanks

Attaching two pics with Soviet/Afghan kill markings.