GreaterPakistan 🇵🇰's video: Pakistan Air Warfare Supremacy - Great Air Battles - Pakistan India War

From 1955 to1965, the Pakistan Air Force armed its squadrons with the most modern jet fighters and bombers, Sabers and F-104 Starfighters as fighters, B-57s as bombers and the ubiquitous C-130s as transport fleet. The seven years of rigorous training with realistic threat perception, planning and preparation had enabled PAF to inflict a humiliating defeat on the enemy in 1965 when the mutual hostility of the rival neighbours escalated into a war. Before the outbreak of the 1965 war the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was outnumbered by a ratio of 5:1. It could field twenty-four B-57 canberra bombers alongside 108 F-86 Sabre and twelve F-104 Starfighter jets. In comparison the Indian Air Force (IAF) could count upon a number of Hawker Hunters, Folland Gnats , de Havilland Vampires and a squadron of MIG-21s. The Hawker Hunters aircraft had been supplied as part of contract that saw 140 aircraft delivered to the IAF at about the same time as the PAF received its F-86 Sabres. PAF struck hard its rival and kept it reeling under tactics of shock and unpredictability. Many victories came to PAF pilots who exacted an even retribution on the enemy, leaving it in total disarray. At the end of the war, India had lost 113 aircraft with 19 damaged, not including those destroyed on the ground at night, against a loss of 19 PAF planes. Thus the outnumbered PAF emerged triumphant over a four times larger force, its air defence controllers, engineers, logisticians and hands just as much the heroes as its pilots.