straighttalk
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Maybe you haven't heard of surface to air missiles and stinger..that's how they all got shot...air to air isn't the only way to get shot ..in those days without laser guided munitions or gos tracked ones .initially you got to fly close to the mountain peaks..and in range of the stingers...also altitude impacts air density and max payload height envelope as well as speed based on thermodynamics and jet engine combustion principlesI googled it - we actually lost 3 aircraft in 1999: a Mig-21, a Mig-27 and a Mil Mi-17 helicopter.
If the PAF didn't take to the skies, I wonder how on earth our genius IAF managed that.