No. 17 Squadron PAF

No. 17 Squadron
"*Tigers*"
No. 17 Squadron; "Tigers"
Active	1 April 1957 – Present
Country	Pakistan
Allegiance	Pakistan Armed Forces
Branch	Pakistan Air Force
Type	Fighter squadron
Role	Air Superiority
Part of	Northern Air Command
Airbase	PAF Base Peshawar
Nickname(s)	Tigers
Motto(s)	ضرب مری کوہ شکن; (Urdu for 'Nothing can withstand my Potent Strike')
Mascot(s)	A Bengal Tiger
Engagements	Indo-Pakistani conflicts Operation Desert Hawk; Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 Indo-Pakistani Air War of 1965; Battle of Khem Kharan; Battle of Phillora; ; Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 Western theatre; ; ; Project-706 Air Cover for Chagai-I & Chagai-II; ;
Battle honours	Rajasthan (1965); Suleimanki (1971) ;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Azim Daudpota
Aircraft flown
Fighter	F-86 Sabre; Canadair Sabre; Shenyang F-6; Chengdu F-7P; Chengdu F-7PG;

The No. 17 Squadron nicknamed Tigers, is an air superiority squadron of the Pakistan Air Force's Northern Air Command. It is currently deployed at Peshawar Air Base and operates the Chengdu F-7PG aircraft.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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