AT A FIGHTER BASE, in West Pakistan, Dec. 14 — A jubilant Pakistani pilot landed his Chinese‐built MIG19 fighter here today and described how he had just fired an American‐made Sidewinder missile into an Indian MIG‐21, destroying the enemy aircraft.

Flight Lieut. Amer Ali Sherif had some lines from the Koran invoking the help of Allah taped to his flight suit. Otherwise he could have passed for an American fighter pilot.

The uniform, the mannerisms and even the slang would have seemed at home on an American base.

“There were three of us on ground support duty looking for enemy tanks,” he said. “Suddenly I spotted 10 enemy planes at 12 o'clock, Sukhoi‐7's and MIG‐21's. called the flight leader to break but [turn sharply] and we punched our stores” —that is, jettisoned external fuel tanks.

“I fired one weapon — it was a Sidewinder heat‐seeking missile—“and the MIG‐21 exploded,” he said. “There was no chute so I guess we won't get to meet the poor guy.’

Apart from the roar of Mirage and MIG jets landing and taking off, this large air base—whose location cannot be disclosed for security reasons — seemed almost at peace. Base officers and pilots entertained a group of visitors at a garden party at which officers' wives lent a homey touch to conversation.

“All our people are disappointed with the Indians,” the base commander, Air Commodore Ghulam Hyder, said. “We want to fight them and there's a competition between our Mirage pilots and MIG pilots to see who gets more. But the Indians just aren't coming over.

Victory Held ‘Certain’

“They made a couple of half‐hearted attempts to hit this base but did no damage, as you can see. They haven't been back in days.”

Pakistan claims to have destroyed about 130 of India's 625 combat aircraft while losing only nine of her own.

Pakistani authorities concede, however, that the fighter force of F‐86 Sabre jets assigned to the defense of East Pakistan has been completely out of action for nearly a week.

A squadron leader, Ejaz Ahmed Khan, said that Moslem faith was the main reason for the one‐sided combat Pakistan asserts she has waged against the Indian Air Force.

“From our earliest days we are grounded in Islam and our one God makes our victory certain,” he declared. The Indians are worshippers of idols, of many gods. Ours is the true strength.

American Training Praised

Technically, Pakistan's small and superannuated air force is hardly a match for the large number of Sukhoi7's, MIG‐21's and other modern aircraft India is using. Pilots here say the Indians also are using an improved version of the Soviet‐built Sam‐2, a surface‐to‐air missile capable of tracking planes down to an altitude as low as 500 feet.

Pakistan's force was made up largely on Korean‐war vintage Sabre jets and a smaller number of Chinese built MIG‐19's (designated by China as the F‐6) and French Mirage III's.

“One of the main differences,” Wing Comdr. Mohd Mehmud Alam said, “is that our air training basically is founded on the training the American Air Force gave us. India's training is mainly by Russia, and Russians don't know how to fly even their own planes.”

The wing commander said he had seen the Russians in action in Syria and Jordan during the 1,967 war against Israel.

Wing Commander Alem also is a believer in prayer. “This is a secular age, and we may not all say our prayers, but we all believe,” he declared. “Our ground crews pray and I say all five, prayers each time before taking off. How can we lose?”