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Explain in detail about the Indo-Pak War 1971.

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Darkness had just fallen on the evening of 3rd December 1971 when air raid alert was sounded at 6 PM in most of the cities in India. With the sounding of siren all lights went off. The cities were plunged into darkness. The AIR then revealed the unfortunate incident of unprovoked aggression by Pakistan.

The Pakistani Air Force and ground troops following the Israeli type preemptive strike had launched a massive attack on the Western front stretching from Jammu & Kashmir to Rajasthan. In addition to air raids by the Pakistani Air Force the ground forces also launched a massive attack on our border posts. Air Defence Guns and Knats went blazing and ensured 03 of Pakistanis Sabre jets were shot down. Gnats and MiG-21s, demonstrated the superiority of IAF pilots. The MiG-21 was highly effective in short range, precision attacks which was amply demonstrated while carrying out attacks against key command centers in the capital Dacca itself. It was in the Western theatre that the MiG-21 was employed in its primary task, that of air defence, escort and interception. Deployed at all the major air bases, the MiG-21FLs mounted hundreds of combat air patrol sorties over Vital Points (VP) and Vital Areas (VA), flew escort missions for bombers and were continuously scrambled to intercept hostile intruders. Flying Officer NirmalJit Singh Sekhon, flying Gnat with No 18 Squadron from Srinagar, was posthumously awarded the ParamVir Chakra.

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