No 5 Tactical Attack and Reconnaissance Squadron was raised on 15 August 1947 with Hawker Tempest Mk-II aircraft. The Squadron has operated Hawker Fury, Fighter Bomber FB-60, T-61 Fury, Tempest-II, F-86F Sabres (1955), Mirages (1968) and F-16 C/D Block 52 (2011). The Squadron pilots achieved eight aerial kills in 1965 war and four in 1071 war. No 5 Squadron is credited with six gallantry awards including one Hilal-e-Jurat to Sarfraz Rafiqui and five Sitara-i-Jurat to Sarfaraz Rafiqui, Younus Hasan, Cecil Chaudhary and AH Malik.
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