The battle, which led to the shooting down of three Pakistani fighter aircraft, shows the hallmarks of Indian Air Force — courage, culture and camaraderie.
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It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Today is no 1971 and Pakistanis are not just foes but murderer and don’t follow a Geneva convention rules for POW,
In the history India is first to return 93000 POWs unharmed in any war where as in past Muslims have carried out genocides every where they won the war.
In current air fight Pakistan is not willing to let press know what happened on fateful morning of February 27, 2019. Did they loose F16 and its pilot? Forget the F16 model but it was humiliation Pakistan Air Force and US suffered is to be recorded. AV flight commander of India came home safe though loosing Bison.
“…there is no desire to conquer, but only a craving to excel and soar above earthly emotions. The competition is always with oneself, never really with another. Given a chance, a fighter pilot would prefer to spend an evening with a guy he shot down earlier in the day; complimenting him, quizzing him and also revelling in his returned compliments.” – beautifully captures the psyche of fighter pilots, one of the most adventurous fraternity, the other being mountaineers (not including the astronauts as they are still rare). In that sense, fighter pilots are like cricketers, who may be rivals on the field but never short of words when it comes to discussing the action they witnessed or experienced.
That said, the role of IAF in 1971 was much more sharply defined than in wars that preceded it. As Air Marshall Asthana states: The two of the objectives stated in air war planning were: (1) “Eliminate the PAF in East Pakistan” and “Ensure that the PAF was no hinderance to the [Indian] Navy.” (Asthana, T.M., 2016: 121. Jointness in the War. in Ed. Singh, J. (2016). Role of Indian Air Force in 1971 War. K.W. Publishers)
Today is no 1971 and Pakistanis are not just foes but murderer and don’t follow a Geneva convention rules for POW,
In the history India is first to return 93000 POWs unharmed in any war where as in past Muslims have carried out genocides every where they won the war.
In current air fight Pakistan is not willing to let press know what happened on fateful morning of February 27, 2019. Did they loose F16 and its pilot? Forget the F16 model but it was humiliation Pakistan Air Force and US suffered is to be recorded. AV flight commander of India came home safe though loosing Bison.
“…there is no desire to conquer, but only a craving to excel and soar above earthly emotions. The competition is always with oneself, never really with another. Given a chance, a fighter pilot would prefer to spend an evening with a guy he shot down earlier in the day; complimenting him, quizzing him and also revelling in his returned compliments.” – beautifully captures the psyche of fighter pilots, one of the most adventurous fraternity, the other being mountaineers (not including the astronauts as they are still rare). In that sense, fighter pilots are like cricketers, who may be rivals on the field but never short of words when it comes to discussing the action they witnessed or experienced.
That said, the role of IAF in 1971 was much more sharply defined than in wars that preceded it. As Air Marshall Asthana states: The two of the objectives stated in air war planning were: (1) “Eliminate the PAF in East Pakistan” and “Ensure that the PAF was no hinderance to the [Indian] Navy.” (Asthana, T.M., 2016: 121. Jointness in the War. in Ed. Singh, J. (2016). Role of Indian Air Force in 1971 War. K.W. Publishers)