1988 Soviet Afghan War: PAF F-16s Shoot Down Soviet Mig-23 Bombers | DCS Reenactment

Today we look at an incident during the Soviet Afghan War where Pakistan's F-16 fighters shot down soviet Mig-23 bombers.

0:00 Soviet Afghan War
5:11 Re-enactment History
7:24 Scenario Details
9:11 Take Off
15:30 Combat

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[shahzaibnadeem]

From shooting Soviet jets to Israeli F-16s to indian jets..PAF, one of the most skilled, professional and strong Air force out there..PAF pilots are on a different level...

[Orieni]

For MANPADS, consider that mishandling them can put cracks in the rocket motor, so if one group has trained people to rant and rave at anyone who drops one, and another group thinks of them as a sort of magic wand, you could easily get contradictory analysis of the available data.

[CJWall_rott]

thanks for being my YouTube history teachers GR crew

[OneGeneral]

PAF proved that they have one of the best and experienced pilots in the entire world, just check what happened in 2019.

[jilanimalik]

The PAF F-16 squadron that flew CAP/interception sorties against the intruding Soviet/Afghan jets in the 80s was actually based at Kamra which is much further East of Peshawar.

[syedayanather]

Pakistan did received the AIM-7 missiles with the first batch of F-16s (this has been confirmed by U.S.A).They were kept in storage for critical use, F-16 were usually not armed with them as U.S feared they could have been used offensively.

[trev]

Perfect take-off. Almost perfect mission and a mil-sim landing? What have you done with the Grim Reapers!

[DCSWORLDPAK]

The F-16s had Lima and Papa mix. 4 Sidewinders

[junaidazam]

I would like to recommend a Hollywood film, starring Tom Hanks, related to this particular conflict. The film's name is "Charlie Wilsons War". I personally enjoyed it and i think from both a historical view point as well as for just plain entertainment, you might enjoy it too .

[DCSWORLDPAK]

Since there's no Peshawar AFB on the map. Where are you guys taking off from?

[jyralnadreth]

The Stingers are likely the FIM-92A model which only had a cooled IR Seeker head, FIM-92B model and later included a Ultraviolet Contrast seeker head in addition to the main IR seeker to discriminate against countermeasures. MI-24s also had their own countermeasures to defeat IR guided missiles like HIRSS and IRCM. FIM-92A and B were in production during this conflict but the B model only had limited production - we are on the FIM-92J and K models which added proximity fusing options

[ShakeelAhmad-pmnz]

They were Mujahideen when fighting against Russians.. later same peiple became terrorists coz this time the opponent was US and NATO.😂😂

[ashirtoor]

as a Pakistani, ill just say siding with the US was the biggest mistake we ever made, a mistake that effects us till this day .

[seattlekarim]

My silly thought while watching this: these graphics are way too good to be 1988.

[HughMessenger]

My daily ritual of dinner and a GR video.

[Vtarngpb]

IIRC, PAF F-16’s initially didn’t have look-down, shoot-down radar 😉

[McAllisterCo]

The Soviet Union lost between 15, 000 - 26, 000 men over 10 years of war in Afghanistan (1979-1989). The Russians lost that amount taking one town (Bakhmut) in Ukraine. Simply insane.

[MT-wpsu]

pakistan shot multiple soviets jets in 80s inlcuding afghan air force jets around 14. future russian vice president tAlexander Rutskoy was also shot down by pakistan and captured. many afghan jets surrendered to pakistan air force too during the time

[enoy]

Hi, will grim reapers make content on Sea Power when it releases?

[M.AbdullahAyub]

Afghandus on Shittok: Pakistan is our anamy saaar they phout with us and losee