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Here u go, did we fight israel???, we are the only ones who have shot down israeli jets, no arab state has done that so in essence, in ur little war we damaged israel more than u ever could.Israel is the only example that you can mention. In the modern era Arabs have not been fighting against non-Arab states other than Algeria's successful independent movement against an colonial power like France. That was a victory. Arab armies defeating Kurdish rebels in Iraq and Syria on multiple occasions were also a victory. Arabs in Sudan fighting against South Sudanese were also a victory. Arabs fighting against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war were not a victory but neither a defeat and Iraq, despite being a 3-4 times smaller country and having a 2.5 times smaller population back then inflicted more harm on Iran and conquered and held more Iranian territories for longer than vice versa.
So we are back to Israel, one of the few nuclear-armed states that enjoys full backing of the Western world and the US. A country which elite were European Jews familiar with WW1, WW2, hardened soldiers during WW2 and who fought for their very survival after Holocaust in their own country.
Now Arab armies back then were lead by incompetent regimes who were conspiring against each other and officers who were no different.
Google "understanding modern Arab military effectiveness" and read the PDF file and learn about what has been a problem back then and still is a problem for some Arab armies. Read about the chain of command in particular.
This has nothing to do with anything else but structural problems.
Now, did Pakistan not lose half of its country (certainly population) during a war against India and is most of Kashmir not occupied by India? Yes or no?
Did Pakistan ever attack Israel? Yes or no?
If no, do you think that Pakistan is in a position to lecture here? Yes or no?
Pakistani Air Force Pilots shot down 10 Israeli Air force Jets
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13th April 2015
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Famous Pakistan Air Force PAF Pilots Who Shot Down Israeli Jet Fighters - Air Commodore Retired Sattar Alvi
(Exclusive By Shahid Qureshi) During the so-called ‘Six Day War‘ (1967), which generated American Jewish support for the Zionist entity for the first time – Pakistani pilot Saiful Azam joined tiny Jordanian Air force. On June 5, Saiful Azam engaged four Israeli jets over Jordanian Mafraq air base. He shot down a Mystére commanded by Israeli pilot H. Boleh and damaged another that crash-landed in Israeli territory.
Pakistani pilot Saiful Azam as a young Fl. Lt. pilot in the 1960s. (Photo courtesy AP)
Two days later, Jordanian air force commander sent Saiful Azam to help Iraqi air force. While piloting the Iraqi Hunter Azam shot down two of the Israeli attacking planes. Pakistani pilots shot down a total of ten Israeli jets during 1967 war without losing a pilot or aircraft. Saiful Azam, native of East Pakistan – joined Bangladesh Air Force in 1971. Both the US and Israel helped India to create Bangladesh out of East Pakistan. Saiful Azam has the unique honor of the only pilot in the world who downed four Israeli jets – and served in four airforces; Pakistan, Jordan, Iraq and Bangladeshi. He also hold world record of shooting-down three kinds of military aircrafts in two different air forces. During October 1973 Israel’s Yom Kippur war on its Arab neighboring countries – A squadron of Pakistan’s Pakistan Air Force (PAF) arrived in Syria to fight alongside the SAF and halt the Israeli advance over the Golan Heights. The PAF pilots Sattar Alvi and Arif Mansoor, engaged and shot down an Israeli F-4 Phantom over Egyptian airspace.
Famous Pakistan Air Force PAF Pilots Who Shot Down Israeli Jet Fighters – Air Commodore Retired Sattar Alvi – Interview Below.
Another dogfight between the PAF and IAF over Syrian airspace came to a memorable end with Pakistan obliterating the Israeli Mirage IICJ flown by M. Lutz with air-to-air missiles. This was enough to convince other Israeli fighter planes to bug out and abort all further incursions into Syria. Other Pakistani pilots who joined Syrian force as volunteers included future Air Marshal Nur Khan, Salem Metla, Shahbaz Khan, Wisaam Faris and Wisaam Shuja’at. Late President of Syria Hafiz Assad awarded two of the pilots’ country’s highest decorations for gallantry.
Pakistani air force states that all its 12 volunteer pilots scored direct hits against Israeli aircrafts and suffered no losses. During the 1973 war, Flt. Lt. A. Sattar Alvi became the first Pakistani pilot, flying a Syrian aircraft to shoot down an Israeli Mirage in air combat. Similarly on the Egyptian front, PAF pilot Flt. Lt. M. Hatif, flying an Egyptian MiG-21 shot down an Israeli F-4 phantom in an air combat. Pakistani Air Force did not lose a single pilot or aircraft in any of the wars.