All of us have read and heard a lot about the Victory of 1965, but this is AWESOME!
General (R) Chuck Yeager (USAF), legendary X-15 Test Pilot writes in his book: “Yeager, the Autobiography”.
“The air war in 1965 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.”
“They were really good, aggressive dog-fighters and proficient in gunnery and air combat tactics. I was damn impressed. Those guys just lived and breathed flying.”
“As an air defense analyst, I am fully aware that the Pakistan Air Force ranks today as one of the best air forces in the world and that the PAF Combat Commanders’ School (CCS) in Sargodha has been ranked as the best GCI/pilot and fighter tactics and weapons school in the world”. As one senior US defence analyst commented to me in 1991, “it leaves Topgun (the US Naval Air Station in Miramar, California) far behind”.
~ The famous USAF test pilot, on deputation in Pakistan as US Defense Representative. The PAF remains the only foreign air force in the world to have received Chuck Yeager’s admiration a recommendation which the PAF is proud of.
