Indo-Pakistani Air War of 1965

Indo-Pakistani Aerial War of 1965
Part of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Date August – September 23, 1965 Location South Asia Result Neither side won United Nations mandated ceasefire. No permanent territorial changes (See Tashkent Declaration).
Belligerents
India  Indian Air Force	Pakistan  Pakistan Air Force
Commanders and leaders
ACM Arjan Singh	AM Noor Khan
Casualties and losses
Neutral claims 60–75 aircraft Indian claims 35-59 aircraft lost In addition, Indian sources claim that there were 13 IAF aircraft lost in accidents, and 3 Indian civilian aircraft shot down. Pakistani claims 110-113 aircraft destroyed	Neutral claims 20 aircraft Pakistani claims 19 aircraft lost Indian claims 43-73 aircraft destroyed

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The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 saw the Indian and Pakistani Air Forces engaged in large-scale aerial combat against each other for the first time since the Partition of India in 1947. The war took place during the course of September 1965 and saw both air forces conduct defensive and offensive operations over Indian and Pakistani airspace. The aerial war saw both sides conducting thousands of sorties in a single month. Both sides claimed victory in the air war; Pakistan claimed to have destroyed 104 enemy aircraft against its own losses of 19, while India claimed to have destroyed 73 enemy aircraft and lost 35 of its own. Despite the intense fighting, the conflict was effectively a stalemate.

The war began in early August 1965 and initially the fighting was confined mainly to the ground. Later, however, as the war progressed, the war took on another dimension as the two sides began air operations against each other. Although the two forces had previously taken part in the First Kashmir War which had occurred shortly after the Partition of India in 1947, that engagement had been limited in scale compared to the 1965 conflict and the air operations that both sides had undertaken were limited and largely confined to interdiction and other strategic purposes such as re-supply and troop transport operations. Although there had been one incident where Indian fighter aircraft intercepted a Pakistani transport, there had been no significant air-to-air combat. During the 1965 conflict, however, the PAF flew a total 2,364 sorties while the IAF flew 3,937 sorties.

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