You are asking others to be polite, yet here by name calling, you have evidently proved to be the hypocrtic arsehole that Oscar pointed out. Besides your kind crawl around here to learn so enlighten yourself.
Even say if the F-104 didn't see the Gnat, but the Gnat pilot was well aware of the Starfighters presence, hence the panic call and losing will to fight..... and the same aircraft was flown by a PAF pilot the very next day with all systems working in perfect order,
Didnt read it full the gnat was coming back after entering Indian airspace . So , i guess either Pakistani pilot that checked the plane next day is lying or the author or IAF Pilot was brave and turned back 2 PAF F-104 but, here goes your panic call .. Explain what made him turned or behave strangely ? As said in article if system are all good or PAF played with facts to fit the story ?
And rest only arsehole calls other person arsehole .
Read the book 'Battle for Pakistan' written by John Fricker a British. It is a neutral source.
Wow there was author from IHS Janes about whome you guys talked a lot and give as a link many time but , the day he bring his article on JF-17 block 2 you end up saying him bogus .
Anyway y not you look into history of John and from where he get
His so called neutral source
Even know our Pakistani friends live in any delusion it will clear it :
India lost a total of 24 aircraft to air action and ground fire. Measured against the 3,937 sorties flown in the western sector, this amounts to a loss rate of 0.6096 aircraft per hundred sorties flown in the war.
Compared to this, the Pakistan Air Force lost 43 aircraft. It admitted to the loss of only one F-86 on the ground to IAF action (at Sargodha). Taking this at face value, against a total of 2,364 sorties flown in the war, the Pakistan Air Force loss rate in air warfare would amount to 1.7766 aircraft for every hundred sorties flown. In other words, the PAF was losing aircraft at nearly three times the rate of the IAF during the war. Other estimates conclude that Pakistan lost close to half a dozen aircraft on the ground on account of IAF air action. In this case, the loss of 37 aircraft in air warfare would amount to a loss rate of 1.5651 aircraft for every hundred sorties flown in the war.
In other words, taking the lower figure for PAF losses in the air, Pakistan was losing 1.57 aircraft for very hundred sorties flown, compared to the IAF losing 0.61 aircraft. Given its overall smaller size, the PAF would have ceased to act as an operational force if the war had gone on for another two weeks or so.