IAF scrambles Sukhoi-30 jets after sighting Pakistan drone
This resulted in Pakistan also scrambling two of its F-16 fighter aircrafts close to the border.
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) on early Monday morning scrambled two Sukhoi-30 fighter jets after Army radars sighted a large Pakistani drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) along the Indo-Pak border in the Khemkaran sector in Punjab, official sources said.
This resulted in Pakistan also scrambling two of its F-16 fighter aircrafts close to the border.
Soon after Sukhoi-30 were scrambled, Pakistani UAV retreated to its base. However, no side violated the air space, with the fighter jets of both countries staying within their own boundaries.
The IAF is on high alert since India carried out airstrikes at JeM’s Balakot terror camp in Pakistan on February 26.
Meanwhile, Pakistan on Monday for the first time indicated that it used F-16s on February 27.
Pakistan is under pressure as it could face action from the US for using F-16s against India as these jets were given to it only for self-defence and not to attack any other country.
India has got wreckage of AMRAAM missile which Pakistan can only use in F-16s to proved that PAF used the US-supplied aircraft in the February 27.