Re: Tribute to Air Commodore Abdul Hameed Qadri
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The best thing about this Air Commodore was that he is accredited with two kills of Afghan Su-27 during the Afghan conflict with Pakistan back in the eighties.
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Are you sure that you didn't mean Su-7?
I don't remember ever that flankers were deployed to afghanistan? (they were faced off with NATO forces in the heated Cold War in the border Warsaw Pact). Except MiG-21s, the higher level MiG-29s at bagram? were flown by V-VS (not DRAAF).
Russians did though use extensively the 'hinds' which were also responsible for bajaur type strikes back then (on mujahideen supply routes killing people and mules) in Pakistani tribal areas.