The following quotes taken from international media sources prove beyond a shadow of doubt that when it comes to the man behind themachine, Pakistan’s fighter pilots are simply THE BEST in the whole wide world: “This airforce (the PAF), is second to none” Few comments may sound pretty old; however, few are as recent as 1998.
“The air war 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 dogfighters and proficient in gunnery and air
combat tactics. I was damned impressed. Those guys just lived and breathed flying.”(General (Retd.) Chuck Yeager (USAF), Book: Yeager, the Autobiography). General Chuck Yeager, 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 - recommendation that the PAF is proud of.
“He was a formidable fellow and I was glad that he was Pakistani and not Egyptian” (Israel Air Force chief and ex-President Ezer Weizmen writing about PAF chief Nur Khan in his autobiography, On Eagles’ Wings).
“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 defense analyst commented to me in 1991, “it leaves Popgun (the US Naval Air Station in Miramar, California) far behind”. -Sergey Vekhov May 1993 issue (pages 46-47) of Airforces Monthly, reputable UK-based airs defense magazine.
The PAF, although outnumbered by IAF (Indian Air Force), has at least one qualitative edge over its rival: Pilot Training. The caliber of Pakistani instructors is acknowledged by numerous air forces, and US Navy pilots considered them to be highly ‘professional’ during exercises flying off the USS Constellation (as co-pilots). -Jane’s International Defense (June 24, 1998)
“By all accounts the courage displayed by the Pakistan Air Force pilots is reminiscent of the bravery of the few young and dedicated pilots who saved this country from Nazi invaders in the critical Battle of Britain during the last war.” Patrick Seale, The Observer, London, September 12, 1965.
“Pakistan claims to have destroyed something like 1/3rd the Indian Air Force, and foreign observers, who are in a position to know say that Pakistani pilots have claimed even higher kills than this; but the Pakistani Air Force being scrupulously honest in evaluating these claims. They are crediting Pakistan Air Force only those killings that can be checked from other sources.” Roy Meloni, American Broadcasting Corporation September 15, 1965.
The London Daily Mirror reported: "There is a smell of death in the burning Pakistan sun. For it was here that India’s attacking forces came to a dead stop. “During the night they threw in every reinforcement they could find. But wave after wave of attacks were repulsed by the Pakistanis” “India”, said the London Daily Times, “is being soundly beaten by a nation which is outnumbered by four and a half to one in population and three to one in size of armed forces.” In Times reporter Louis Karrar wrote: “Who can defeat a nation which knows how to play hide and seek with death”.
"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 defense analyst commented to me in 1991, "it leaves Popgun (the US Naval Air Station in Miramar, California) far behind". -Sergey Vekhov May 1993 issue (pages 46-47) of Airforces Monthly, reputable UK-based airs defense magazine.
I felt very good after i read this because this says something about our paf and armed forces that those from india out number us 3 to 1 and still cannot take us over and Never will Inshallah! Us Pakistanis are very talented and hard working but dont get enough oppertunities and are short of resources!
and guys, about the issue of Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed Nishan-i-Haider being murdered by PAF; it's one of the greatest bull**** theories that go around in our paranoid Pakistan. Other famous ones include about (believe it or not) Quaid-e-Azam being murdered too...
Rashid Minhas has been one of the world's most phenomenol heroes ever. It takes more than a pair of balls to do what he did. I have been to his grave at the Fauji Qabristan in Karachi and i just can't describe the feeliong i had. At that moment i only wished that i had been a soldier too, and in uniform, so that i could salute the glory of one of Pakistan's greatest heroes. He was ONLY 20 years old when he crashed his own plane some 35 KM short of the border after his plane was hijacked by his instructor shortly after taking off from the Mauripr(Masroor) base. Later officials found a book on Rashid Minhas's bedside, at his residence at the base, about WWII Japaneese Kamikaazee pilots.
A verse written on his tombstone goes something like;
"Parwaaz hai aik hi fizaa mein donoon ki
momin ka nishan aur hai munafiq ka nishan aur
Hai Rashid ki shahaadat pe Iqbal ka ye qaul
Shaheen ka jahan aur hai Kyrgyz ka jahan aur."
Translation:
"The flight of both is in the same sky
the destination of the bleiver is one, and of the disbeliever another
on Rashid's martyrdom Iqbal has this to say
the dimensions of a falcon are one and of a vulture another."
It has clear reference to the way he was martyred.
thats how we destroy threads man!!
