Pakistan’s 6park.com
 military said on February 27 that it has shot down two Indian Air Force 6park.com
 (IAF) fighter jets that had entered Pakistani airspace, capturing a  6park.com
pilot. 6park.com
“IAF crossed LOC [Line of Control]. PAF shot down two Indian aircrafts inside Pakistani airspace,” according 6park.com
 to Pakistan’s military spokesman. “One of the aircraft fell inside  6park.com
AJ&K [Azad Kashmir] while other fell inside IOK [Indian-occupied  6park.com
Kashmir]. One Indian pilot arrested by troops on ground while two in the 6park.com
 area.” The alleged captured IAF pilot, Wing Commander Abhi Nandan, the  6park.com
spokesperson said in a separate statement, “is being treated as per norms of military ethics.” 6park.com
India 6park.com
 confirmed that one of its planes was shot down by Pakistani planes and  6park.com
said a pilot is missing in a statement issued on February 27 by the  6park.com
Indian Ministry of External Affairs. “In that aerial engagement, one  6park.com
Pakistan Air Force [PAF] fighter aircraft was shot down by a MiG 21  6park.com
Bison of the Indian Air Force,” the statement reads. 6park.com
 “The Pakistani aircraft was seen by ground forces falling from the sky  6park.com
on the Pakistan side. In this engagement, we have unfortunately lost one 6park.com
 MiG 21. The pilot is missing in action.” 6park.com
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Pakistan has rejected India’s claim that a Pakistani fighter jet had been shot down. 6park.com
The 6park.com
 first MiG-21s entered service with the IAF in the 1960s. They are among 6park.com
 the most accident-prone fighter jets ever to be inducted into service  6park.com
by the IAF. The MiG-21 Bison is an upgraded version of the Russian-made  6park.com
baseline MiG-21. According to unconfirmed media reports, the PAF  6park.com
military aircraft that shot down the Mig-21 Bison was an Aeronautical  6park.com
Complex/Chengdu Aerospace Corporation (PAC/CAC) JF-17 “Thunder” Block  6park.com
II multirole fighter jet. (Other reports claim that a PAF F-16 engaged  6park.com
the IAF fighters.) 6park.com
“Proud 6park.com
 to announce, I was project director for JF-17 Thunder program jointly  6park.com
produced by Pakistan and China during the tenure of General Pervez  6park.com
Musharraf,” retired PAF Air Marshall Shahid Latif said in a statement on social media today. “Today, same jets targeted and shot down Indian Jets which entered Pakistani Airspace.” 6park.com
Some 6park.com
 reports claim that the IAF jets were engaged with beyond-visual-range  6park.com
air-to-air missiles (BVRAAM). Notably, the PAF is in the process of  6park.com
integrating the Chinese-made PL-12 BVRAAM with the JF-17. (An unnamed  6park.com
BVRAAM has recently been test fired 6park.com
 by the PAF.) As of today, there is no publicly available data to verify 6park.com
 what aircraft type engaged the IAF jets. Nonetheless, if confirmed it  6park.com
would constitute the first kill of an aircraft by a JF-17. (A JF-17 shot down an Iranian drone in 2017.) 6park.com
The 6park.com
 JF-17 was originally developed to replace the PAF’s aging fleet of  6park.com
Dassault Mirage III/5 fighter jets by the early 2020s. The PAF is  6park.com
expected to induct 150 JF-17 combat aircraft over the next years, split  6park.com
into three productions blocks: Block I, Block II, and Block-III. PAC has 6park.com
 so far produced 50 Block I aircraft and over 60 Block II JF-17s. 6park.com
PAC 6park.com
 has an annual domestic production capability of 25 JF-17 aircraft.  6park.com
“Pakistan is estimated to be capable of assembling up to 25 JF-17  6park.com
aircraft per year without technical or logistical assistance from China. 6park.com
 (PAC produces 58 percent of the airframe and CAC 42 percent),” I noted elsewhere. 6park.com
Following 6park.com
 the completion of Block II production, PAC will switch to Block III  6park.com
production. A two-seat trainer variant of the JF-17, designated JF-17B,  6park.com
will reportedly serve as the basis for the JF-17 Block III version of  6park.com
the aircraft. 6park.com
“All JF-17 variants are powered by a Chinese license-built Klimov RD-93 (an RD-33 derivative) turbofan engine,” I explained 6park.com
 previously. “The jet fighter is a multirole combat aircraft and can  6park.com
alternatively be armed with air-to-air, air-to-surface, and anti-ship  6park.com
missiles.” The aircraft has a combat radius of up to 1,200 kilometers  6park.com
without refueling and can reach a maximum speed of up to Mach 1.6. 6park.com
The PAF JF-17s will reportedly be upgraded 6park.com
 with a Chinese-made active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar  6park.com
system, which will significantly improve the aircraft’s combat  6park.com
capability. Furthermore, “a selected number of Block II and the future  6park.com
Block III variants also feature an in-flight refueling (IFR) probe,  6park.com
which suggests that the aircraft could be deployed for longer-range  6park.com
maritime strike missions,” I reported last year. 6park.com
Malaysia and Nigeria are in the process of procuring the JF-17 for their respective air forces.
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