So basically even you dont know who 'you' are!
Rafi's resolution for the New Year: "Find out who my ancestors are......"
1. Seems you are reading right out of your self serving history prospective, The air war in the Western Sector was a different ball game, the PAF strategy was to fight from the West for East, hence it remained offensive through out the conflict.
2.The IAF claim of flying 4000 sorties was of little achievement when compared to PAF's effort of flying over 3000 in the same period (See Table). Now it doesn't take an historian to conclude, that for an Air Force possessing almost four times the quantity, it's a poor show of deliverance. Keep also in mind that at least three PAF Squadron were not even utilized as they were being conserved for long battles ahead.
3.Albeit the PAF at the time didn't possess any maritime facility, it none the less made every effort to counter the menace of the Indian Styx missile boats, however on the night of 5 December, through a single B-57 raid on Okha naval base, PAF scored direct bomb hits on Fuel and Ammo damps and the missile boat jetty. Such attacks on Pakistan Naval installations ceased after this daring raid.
Seems some characters thriving in their puddles would also have us believe of their Pool privileges, one could question the credibility of your large air arm, when PAF conducted daring day light raids on Utterlai and Pathankot and where was IAF when train loads of armour at Mukerian Rail yards just south of Pathankot were so effectively destroyed that your war lords had to change their war plans.
Firstly you people are only too well known for being the drama queens, as for the topic, the single squadron in Eastern sector was grounded within 48 hours due to runway damage, but none the less bagged 11 Indian aircraft in air combat including two of your top notch MIG-21s.
Any one talking from their back side will no doubt make better sense than your pathetic judgement of my comments. As you blather, India being in quantitative advantage may not have used all it's resources, but what was really ironic is the fact that the PAF being one fourth the size of it's adversary, still didn't utilize at least three of it's squadrons, hence the nucleus of my argument .
After which, Okha naval base burnt for two days, so save it.
And i suggest, you read, "My days with the IAF" written by ACM P C Lal, it may just be a wake up call for some one living in denial.
Since you are adopting a civilized manner, you will receive a reply in kind. Here is an article posted to me some times earlier covering the PAF's prospective in the 1971 war, it was written by a well known aviation historian, the late John Fricker, you and the fan boy can read it to your heart's content, but i would like to see the Indian side of story analysed by other than an Indian author. You see in post war scenario, the IAF was adamant in it's reluctance to open it's log book and entries to any international observers.
