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US officials gathered at Pakistan's Sarghoda Air Force base to carry out their audit of the F-16s. This confirmed to them that no F-16 had been shot down by India.
Our follow up to @laraseligman's story on the #F16 claims with @khuldune

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Lockheed Martin officials who pointed out that had an F-16 been shot down, they would have launched an investigation and examined the MiG-21 black box to understand how the aircraft was shot down. But there was no such "kill"
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The fact that Pakistan could put on display all the three missiles, and at least major parts of the fourth, show that no missile was fired by the MiG-21 before it was shot down.
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