Pakistan Air Force

US Navy F-14 RIO recalls when his section of two Tomcats had to divert to Pakistan during Operation Enduring Freedom – The Aviation Geek Club

‘As we landed at the Pakistani base, we were hesitant to shut down the engines for fear they would not be able to find the right piece of gear to start us back up,’ Michael Vizcarra, former F-14 Tomcat RIO. Following Grumman’s tradition of naming its aircraft after cats, the “Tomcat” made its first flight …

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Pakistani Shenyang F-6 Pilot tells the Story of a Dogfight where he forgot his Aircraft’s Gunsight Caged for Strafing Ground Targets and Failed to Gun-Kill an Indian Su-7 – The Aviation Geek Club

‘Desperate to get this kill, I pressed the trigger till my guns went silent – no more ammo! Oh, if only I was carrying air to air missiles instead of these ground-attack rockets,’ Tahir Alam, 23 Sqn Pakistan Air Force, Shenyang F-6 pilot. Advertise The Cold War years were a period of unprecedented peace in …

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The story of the Su-25 formation that simulated a single transport aircraft and performed a daring strike against Mujahedeen in Pakistan during the Soviet war in Afghanistan – The Aviation Geek Club

This daring strike, in November 1986, was mounted at dawn so that the Su-25 pilots would have sufficient visibility to penetrate Pakistani airspace at ultra-low level and deliver their ordnance using the element of surprise. The Sukhoi Su-25 Grach (NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) is a single-seat, twin-engine jet aircraft developed in the Soviet Union by …

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