"Seconds Before The End"

5 December 1971, late afternoon, F/L Safdar Mehmood positioning himself for a shooting drill at an escaping IAF hunter of No. 20 Sqn. The hunter made a rocket attack on PAF Sakesar radar. The attacker was intercepted by PAF Mirages. The leader fired his 30 mm cannon and scored hits and then his wingman F/O Sohail finished him off through sidewinder.