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sorry sir i never see warning i see that after post this because i serch facts.i am so sorry
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Take a break from the forum, B007. I feel like I'm pleading with the crowd here to stay on topic!I am responding in this post to phoenix80's FALSE CLAIMS oF INDIAN AIR FORCE SUPEIORITY IN 1971 WAR AND OTHER INDIANS FALSE PERCEPTION;
Air Loses of 1971 War
The tables below for Indian aircrafts loss are incomplete. Information on 1971 air war is hard to come by and is often inaccurate. It is a well known fact that Indians lost far more aircrafts as compared to Pakistan Air Force. Names of most of the Indian Indian pilots came from P. V. S. Jagan Mohans web site. I appologize to all those PAF pilots who certainly achieved air victory but their names are not listed below as no information was provided by Indians about their actual combat losses and there is no way for us to obtain names of Indian pilots involved. It is widely believed that Indians lost at least 100 aircrafts and several sources confirm this number.
Psyche of the Pakistan Air Force by Pushpinder Singh and Ravi Rikhye:
" The IAF suffered commensurately higher losses in the 1971 war because it mounted a very great number of attack sorties. To all causes and for all aircraft the losses totalled about 100, of which about 90 would have been combat types". (page 67)
General (Retd.) Chuck Yeager (USAF) , Book: Yeager, the Autobiography)
" The Pakistanis whipped their [Indians'] ***** in the sky, but it was the other way around in the ground war. The air war lasted two weeks and the Pakistanis scored a three-to-one kill ratio, knocking out 102 Russian-made Indian jets and losing thirty-four airplanes of their own. I'm certain about the figures because I went out several times a day in a chopper and counted the wrecks below. I counted wrecks on Pakistani soil, documented them by serial number, identified the components such as engines, rocket pods, and new equipment on newer planes like the Soviet SU-7 fighter-bomber and the MiG-21 J, their latest supersonic fighter. The Pakistani army would cart off these items for me, and when the war ended, it took two big American Air Force cargo lifters to carry all those parts back to the States for analysis by our intelligence division."
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, former Army chief told Karan Thapar in ``face-to-face'' programme on BBC Asked about setbacks during the 1971 war:
On the fifth day of the conflict he told Ms Gandhi that ``everything had gone wrong. The navy lost the khukri. The air force lost a lot of aircraft on the ground. My advances in Bangladesh were halted''. She looked at me and smiled and said you can't win everyday, Sam. And then she turned around and said anyway we will not tell anybody ... Let everybody know that nothing has happened''. Asked to what extent did he win in Bangladesh, Manekshaw said:``Pakistan army in East Pakistan fought very gallantly. But they had no chance. They were a 1,000 miles away from their base. And I had eight or nine months to make my preparations. I had a superiority of almost 50 to one...''. He said it was true that he had written a personal letter to Pakistani captain S.R. Malik for defending his garrison in Kamalpur in Bangladesh ``stoutly'' despite ``hard'' Indian attempts to capture it. ``We did not succeed until about the third attempt....'' The former chief said he had even recommended Captain Malik's name for a gallantry award to the Pakistani army chief.
PAF Air-Kills in East Pakistan
Date PAF Pilot IAF Pilot PAF plane Plane/Pilot fate
Dec 4 F/L Saeed S/L S.B.Samanta F-86 14th Squadron Hunter (37th Squadron)
Dec 4 F/L Shams-ul-Haq S/L V. Bhutani F-86 14th Squadron Su-7 (221 squadron)
Dec 4 F/L Saeed Afzal F/O S.G. Khonde F-86 14th Squadron Hunter (37th Squadron)
Dec 4 F/L Shams-ul-Haq S/L K.D. Mehra F-86 14th Squadron Hunter
Dec 4 F/L Dilawer F/L K. C. Lemontree F-86 14th Squadron Hunter, POW
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PAF Air-Kills in West Pakistan
Date PAF Pilot IAF Pilot PAF plane Plane/Squadron
Dec 04 F/L Naeem Atta F/L L.M.Sasoon and F/L R.M. Advani Mirage III Canberra (JBCU)
Dec 04 F/L Qazi Javed F/O Chati (POW) F-6 Hunter (A-479) (27 Squadron)
Dec 04 F/L Javed Latif F/L H.V. Singh F-6 Su-7 (222 Squadron)
Dec 04 F/L Salim Bag Mirza F/L K.P. Muralidharan F-86 Hunter (A-462) (20 Squadron)
Dec 04 F/L Mujahid F/O S. Tyagi F-86 Hunter (A-490) (27 Squadron)
Dec 05 F/L Safdar S/L J.M. Mistry Mirage III Hunter(A1014) (20 Squadron)
Dec 05 S/L S. Saad Hatmi F/L G.S. Rai (Killed) F-6 Hunter (A482) (27 Squadron)
Dec 05 F/L Qazi F/O K.L Malkani (Killed) F-6 Hunter (A488) (27 Squadron)
Dec 07 F/L Atiq Sufi / F/L Musharaf Mir S/L Jiwa Singh F-6 Su-7 (26 Squadron)
Dec 08 W/C Hashmi F/L R.G Kadam F-6 Su-7 (TACDE)
Dec 10 W/C Arif Iqbal L/C Ashok Roy (Pilot), Lt H S Sirohi (Obs), O Vijayan F-104 Alize (310 Squadron)
Dec 11 S/L Cecil Chaudhery F/L K.K. Mohan F-86 Su-7 (26 Squadron)
Dec 11 Unknown Pilot F/L R D Naithani (Pilot) F/L G Theophilus (Nav) F/L Manohar Purohit (Nav) Mirage III Canberra (5 Bomber Squadron)
Dec 11 W/C Arif Iqbal / S/L Amanullah S/L Mickey Jatar (Killed) F-104 HF-24 (while taking off from the runway) (10 Squadron)
Dec 14 F/L Salim Beg Mirza F/O N.S. Sekhon F-86 Gnat (18 Squadron)
Dec 14 S/L Salim Gauhar Capt P.K. Gaur F-86 Auster (660 Squadron)
Dec 17 F/L Maqsood Amir F/L Tejwant Singh F-86 Mig-21 (29 Squadron)
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PAF Air-Combat Losses in East Pakistan
Date PAF Pilot Pilot Fate Aircraft Involved
Nov 22 F/L Parvez Mehdi Qureshi POW Sabre vs. Gnat
Nov 22 F/O Khalil Ahmed POW Sabre vs. Gnat
Dec 04 W/C S M Ahmed Killed by Terrorists Sabre vs. Hunter
Dec 04 F/L Saeed Afzal Khan Killed by Terrorists Sabre vs. Hunter
Dec 04 F/O Sajjad Noor Pilot rescued Sabre vs. Hunter
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PAF Air Combat Losses in West Pakistan
Date PAF Pilot Aircraft / Pilot Fate Aircraft Involved
Dec 10 S/L Aslam Choudhry F-86 . Pilot killed in action. S/L R N Bharadwaj In Hunter.
Dec 12 W/C M E Middlecoat F-104. Pilot Killed in action. F/L B B Soni in Mig-21.
Dec 13 F/O N N A Baig F-86. Pilot Killed in action. S/L F J Mehta in Hunter
Dec 17 F/L Samad Ali Changezi F-104. Pilot Killed in action. F/L A K Dutta in Mig-21.
Total PAF losses in Air to Air Combat: 09
Total IAF losses in Air to Air Combat (at least): 22
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IAF losses due to Ground fire in East Pakistan
Date IAF Pilot Pilot Fate Aircraft involved
Dec 04 S/L S K Gupta Ejected Hunter
Dec 04 F/L A R Da Costa Killed Hunter
Dec 10 S/L R C Sachdeva Killed Hunter
Dec 13 S/L P.S.Gill Ejected Mig-21
Dec 15 F/O B R E Wilson(Pilot) Flt Lt R B Mehta (Nav) Killed Canberra
Unknown F/L Dixon 2 Killed Hunter
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IAF losses due to Ground fire in West Pakistan
Date IAF Pilot Pilot Fate Aircraft Involved
Dec 04 F/L M S Grewa POW Su-7
Dec 04 F/L P V Apte Killed HF-24
Dec 04 F/L J L Bhargava Unknown HF-24
Dec 05 F/L A V Pethia POW Mystere
Dec 05 S/L D S Jafa Unknown Su-7
Dec 05 F/L Harish Singhji Unknown Mig-21
Dec 05 F/L V V Tambey Unknown Su-7
Dec 05 F/L S K Goswami (Pilot) F/L S C Mahajan (Nav) Unknown Canberra
Dec 05 F/L S C Sandal (Pt) F/L K S Nanda (Nav) Unknown Canberra
Dec 06 F/O K C Kuruvilla Unknown Su-7
Dec 07 F/O H N D Mulla Feroze Unknown HF-24
Dec 08 S/L Denzil Keelor Unknown Mig-21
Dec 08 W/C B A Coelho Unknown Hunter
Dec 09 F/L N Shanker Unknown Su-7
Dec 09 S/L A V Kamat Unknown HF-24
Dec 10 S/L Jain Killed Hunter
Dec 10 F/L Parulkar Unknown Su-7
Dec 10 F/L S K Chibber Unknown Su-7
Dec 13 S/L J D Kumar Unknown Mystere
Dec 13 W/C H S Gill Unknown Mig-21
Dec 16 F/L T S Danadoss Unknown Su-7
unknown S/L Anukul Unknown Mystere
unknown F/L Das Unknown Mystere
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IAF Aircrafts Destroyed on Ground
1 Vampire on Dec 15 (Pakistan claimed far more Indian aircrafts destroyed on ground and this is confirmed by Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, former Indian Army chief).
Date IAF Pilot Pilot Fate Aircraft Involved
Dec 06 F/L V K Wahi Unknown Su-7
Dec 07 F/O M M Singh Unknown Gnat
Dec 12 F/O P K Sahu Unknown Mig-21
Unknown unknown unknown Mig-21
Unknown unknown unknown Mi-4
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IAF Aircrafts Lost in accidents
Date IAF Pilot Pilot Fate Aircraft Involved
Dec 17 F/L J D'Souza , and Five Crew memebers. Killed Dakota
Unknown S/L Rao Ejected Mig-21
Dec 11 S/L K L Bajaj Killed Alloutte
Dec 11 F/L A B Dhavle Killed Mig-21
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PAF losses in East Pakistan Due to Enemy Ground Fire
None: Pakistan Air Force disabled 11 remaining F-86s and 2-3 T-33s by perforating aircraft engines with the gun fire and cutting electric wiring at several places to prevent them from falling into enemy hands after runway was cratered beyond repair.
PAF losses in West Pakistan Due to Enemy Ground Fire
Date PAF Pilot Pilot Fate Aircraft Involved
Dec 05 S/L Khusro,
S/L Peter Chisty Killed B-57
Dec 05 S/L Ishfaq Hameed,
F/L Zulfiqar Ahmed Killed B-57
Dec 05 F/L Javed Iqbal,
F/L G M Malik Killed B-57
Dec 06 S/L Amjad Hussain POW F-104
Dec 07 F/L Wajid Ali Khan POW F-6
Dec 08 F/L Fazal Elahi Killed F-86
Dec 12 F/L Ejazuddin Unknown F-6
Dec 17 F/O Shahid Raza Killed F-6
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PAF Aircrafts Destroyed on Gound
1 RB-57 Destroyed at Masroor on Dec 06.
5 Sabers destroyed at Murid on Dec 08.
PAF aircrafts lost to friendly fire or in accidents
Date PAF Pilot Pilot Fate Aircraft Involved
Dec 04 F/L Nayyar Iqbal Killed F-86
Dec 07 F/O Hamid Khawaja Unknown F-86
Dec 07 S/L Cecil Chaudhry Ejected F-86 (Friendly fire)
Dec 08 F/O Afzal Jamal Siddiqui Killed F-6 (Friendly fire)
Total PAF losses to all causes: 40 (including 13-14 aircrafts destroyed by the personnels of Pakistan Air Force in East Pakistan after runway was cratered beyond repair).
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Dear Sir, What is the use in kicking the IAF butt when pakistan lost half of your country. Your action is like a boxing match loser after losing by knockout but boasting of the punches he delivered. People will remember only about who won the match or war. After all, Pakistan does not deserve an air force if it cant give something back.