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In the early 90s, there was a 14 sqn Viper on the tail of an IAF MiG-25 that had entered the airspace. While awaiting orders, never got the call to engage, either way he switched to hot, the MiG's RWR started and the Indian ran away.Once I found out we could have shot down much more but our Politicians the president or PM whomever had only authorized to shoot only one down, My heart broke into 9 different pieces. PAF would have dominated the Asian skies and IAF would be in a dumpster fire.
Once upon a time Some one from PAF told me that when we had F-16's and no BVR (somewhere around the late 1990 or early 2000 or whenever there was an F-16 squadron at KAMRA) an Indian fighter had entered Pakistan airspace flying low level, Pilot engaged in a dogfight and was able to lock bogey with aim-9L/P and was not given permission too shoot the intruder (Imagine spending Millions of dollars on training/tactics, equipment and so on just to be denied shoot authorization). After the pilot landed and the ground, crew went to service the jet but the pilot jumped out of the f-16 threw his helmet on the ground and was in total disbelief and absolutely lost his trust (higher ups) and IDK what happened after that.