List_of_aerial_victories_during_the_Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971

List of aerial victories during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971

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The Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan and West Pakistan from 3 December 1971 to the Fall of Dacca (Dhaka) on 16 December 1971. The war saw intense use of aerial assets by both sides and proved to be instrumental in the Indian victory in East Pakistan (Bangladesh).

The following lists contains aerial victories credited to both Indian as well as Pakistani pilots.

Western sector

Probable Kills or Unconfirmed kills are in italics text;

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Pilot	Country	Date	Fighter Type	Victim Pilot	Victim Aircraft	Remarks
Flt Lt Javed Latif	Pakistan	4th Dec	Shenyang F6C	Flt Lt H V Singh	Sukhoi Su7	Flt Lt H V Singh KIA^[7]^[3]
Fg Off Qazi Javed	Pakistan	4th Dec	Shenyang F6C	Fg Off V Chati	Hawker Hunter	Chati taken POW^[8]^[9]
Fg Off S B Mirza	Pakistan	4th Dec	F-86F	Flt Lt K P Muralidharan	Hawker Hunter	^[10]^[11]
Flt Lt Mujahid	Pakistan	4th Dec	F-86F	Fg Off Sudhir Tyagi	Hawker Hunter	Tyagi KIA^[12]^[13]
Fg Off Naeem Atta	Pakistan	4th Dec	Dassault Mirage III	Flt Lt L M Sasoon; Flt Lt R M Advani	English Electric Canberra	Both Indian Pilots KIA^[14]
Wg Cdr C V Parker	India	4th Dec	Hawker Hunter	Unidentified Pilot	F-86E
Wg Cdr C V Parker	India	4th Dec	Hawker Hunter	Flt Lt Nayyar Iqbal	F-86E	Pilot KIA. According to Pakistani accounts and sources, the aircraft suffered an accidental flameout^[15]
Fg Off Sudhir Tyagi	India	4th Dec	Hawker Hunter	Unidentified Pilot	F-86E/Mirage III	^[13]
Flt Lt C S Dhillon	India	4th Dec	Hawker Hunter	Unidentified Pilot	F86E
Wg Cdr Johnny Greene	India	4th Dec	Folland Gnat F.1	Unidentified Pilot	Mirage III	Intercepted and photographed. No claim.^[16]
Sqn Ldr K K Bakshi	India	05 Dec	HAL HF24 Mk1	Unidentified Pilot	F-86E	Some historians claim the unidentified pakistani pilot was Fg Off Hamid Khawaja^[17]^[18]
Unidentified Pilot	Pakistan	05 Dec	F-86	Unidentified Pilot(s)	Alloutte III	Alloutte pilots safely bailed out
Unidentified Pilot	Pakistan	06 Dec	F-86	Flt Lt V K Wahi	Sukhoi Su7
Unidentified Pilot	India	07 Dec	Hawker Hunter	Fg Off Hamid Khawaja	F-86E	Pilot crashed while chasing Hunter, acc. to the PAF.
Flt Lt Cecil Choudhary	Pakistan	07 Dec	F-86	Fg Off A R Gandhi	Su-7	^[11]
Fg Off Atiq Sufi	Pakistan	07 Dec	Shenyang F6C	Sqn Ldr Jiwa Singh	Sukhoi Su7
Wg Cdr M H Hashmi	Pakistan	08 Dec	F-86E	Flt Lt R G Kadam	Sukhoi Su7
Flt Lt R G Kadam	India	08 Dec	Sukhoi Su-7BMK	Flt Lt A J Siddiqui	Shenyang F-6	F/L AJ Siddqui is claimed by the PAF to have been shot while chasing Kadam's formation. The pilots of both sides were KIA.^[3]
Unidentified pilot	India	09 Dec	MiG-21FL	Unidentified Pilot	Mirage-IIIEP	2 K-13 AAMs were launched and a proximity hit recorded. Target disappeared from radar. Listed as 'Probable'
Sqn Ldr R N Bharadwaj	India	10 Dec	Hawker Hunter	Sqn Ldr Aslam Chaudhry / KIA	F-86E	^[19]
Wg Cdr Arif Iqbal	Pakistan	10 Dec	F-104A	Lt Cdr Ashok Roy ; Lt H S Sirohi	Bréguet Br.1050 Alizé	The Alize belonged to the Indian Naval Air Arm
Flt. Lt. Bharat Bhushan Soni	India	12th Dec	MiG-21	Wg Cdr Mervyn L Middlecoat^[3]	F-104A	Flt Lt Soni had spotted Middlecoat bail out and had rushed a rescue team from the nearest IAF station.^[3] However the rescue team found no trace of Middlecoat. He had ejected over shark infested waters, it was highly unlikely that he survived.^[20]^[21]^[22]
Sqn Ldr V Kapila	India	12th Dec	MiG-21FL	Unidentified Pilot	F-104A/F-86E	F-104A mentioned in official records
Flt Lt S.S. Malhotra	India	12 Dec	Su-7BMK	Flt Lt Ejazuddin	Shenyang F-6	Although initially PAF did not credit the kill but later accepted the loss of one F-6 over the general area of dogfight^[23]^[21]
Sqn Ldr F J Mehta	India	13th Dec	Hawker Hunter	Fg Off Nasim Nisar Ali Baig	F-86	^[3]^[23]^[24]
Flt Lt K S Suresh	India	13th Dec	Hawker Hunter	Unidentified Pilot	F-86
Fg Off S B Mirza	Pakistan	14 Dec	F-86	Fg Off Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon	Folland Gnat	Fg Off Sekhon had single handedly faced a raid of up to 6 PAF Sabres. He was eventually shot down in the 4 to 1 dogfight that ensued. It was claimed that Sekhon shot down at least one Sabre and severely damaged another. However PAF denies these claims.
Sqn Ldr S Gauhar	Pakistan	14 Dec	F-86	Capt P K Gaur	HAL Krishak	Observation Aircraft belonging to Indian Army^[25]
Wg Cdr M N Singh Sqn Ldr F J Mehta (Shared)	India	15 Dec	Hawker Hunter T.66 (Two-seater)	Unidentified Pilot	F-86	Maneuver kill. Target flew into the ground.^[4]
Flt Lt S B Shah	India	16 Dec	Mig-21FL	Unidentified Pilot	Shenyang F-6	F-6 Wreckage found by Indian Army
Virendera Singh Pathania	India	16 Dec	Folland Gnat	Unidentified Pilot	North American F-86 Sabre	Unconfirmed Kill^[26]
Flt Lt Maqsood Amir	Pakistan	17 Dec	F-86	Flt Lt Tejwant Singh	Mig-21
Flt Lt A K Dutta	India	17 Dec	MiG-21FL	Flt Lt Samad Ali Changezi	F-104A	^[3]^[23]
Unidentified Pilot	India	17 Dec	Hawker Hunter	Unidentified Pilot(s)	2x Cessna 0-1	Confirmed by PAF chronicler, John Fricker's, records^[27]

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Aircraft	Country of Origin
Canadair Sabre	Canada
Cessna O-1 Bird Dog	USA
Dassault Mirage III	France
Lockheed F-104A	USA
North American F-86 Sabre	USA
Shenyang F6C	China

List_of_aerial_victories_during_the_Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971

List of aerial victories during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971

Eastern sector (Bangladesh)

Western sector

List of aircraft mentioned

India

Pakistan

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Pilot	Country	Date	Fighter Type	Victim Pilot	Victim Aircraft	Remarks
Flt Lt M. A. Ganapathy	India	22 Nov	Folland Gnat	Fg Offr Khail Ahmad	Canadair Sabre Mk6	Fg Offr Ahmad POW
Fg Offr Donald Lazarus	India	22 Nov	Folland Gnat	Flt. Lt. Pervaiz Mehdi Qureshi	Canadair Sabre Mk6	Flt Lt Qureshi taken POW ^[1]
Flt Lt Roy Andrew Massey	India	22 Nov	Folland Gnat	Wg Cdr Afzal Chaudhry.	Canadair Sabre Mk6	Chaudhary's Sabre was severely damaged and but claimed to have returned to base, however Massey's wingman claimed to have seen Chaudhary eject.
Wg Cdr Narinder Chatrath	India	4th Dec	Hawker Hunter	Wg Cdr SM Ahemd (KIA)	Canadair Sabre Mk6	PAF pilot KIA^[2]^[3]
Flt Lt Jayendra Sukrut Raj	India	4th Dec	MiG-21	Unidentified Pilot	Canadair Sabre Mk6	Although not officially credited by PAF, a post-war survey by IAF found 7 F-86s of the original total 16 missing. Of these 6 were credited to indian pilots. The last unaccountale F86 was probably shot down by Sukurut Raj
Flt Lt Vinod Kumar Neb	India	4th Dec	Hawker Hunter	Unidentified Pilot	Canadair Sabre Mk6	^[4]
Fg Offr Harish Masand	India	4th Dec	Hawker Hunter	Flt Lt Saeed Afzal	Canadair Sabre Mk6	Flt Lt Saeed Afzal KIA^[3]
Wg Cdr Ramaswamy Sundaresan	India	4th Dec	Hawker Hunter	Fg Offr Sahibzada Sajjad Noor	Canadair Sabre Mk6	^[5]
Sqn Ldr Dilwar Hussain	Pakistan	4th Dec	Canadair Sabre Mk6	Flt Lt K.C Tremenhere	Hawker Hunter	Tremenhere taken POW ^[6]^[5]
Unidentified Pilot	Pakistan	4th Dec	Canadair Sabre Mk6	Sqn Ldr KD Mehra	Hawker Hunter

Aircraft	Country of Origin
Aérospatiale Alouette III	France
Bréguet Br.1050 Alizé	France
English Electric Canberra	United Kingdom
Folland Gnat	United Kingdom
Hawker Hunter	United Kingdom
HAL HF-24 Marut	India
HAL Krishak	India
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21FL	Soviet Union
Sukhoi Su-7BMK	Soviet Union