Post–World War II air-to-air combat losses

Air-to-air combat is the engagement of flying machines in warfare in which one or more aircraft tries to destroy one or more other aircraft. The Korean War saw the greatest amount of air-to-air combat since World War II. During the war the United States claimed to have shot down around 700 fighters.[A 1][3] After the war the USAF reviewed its figures in an investigation code-named Sabre Measure Charlie and downgraded the kill ratio of the North American F-86 Sabre against the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 by half from 14:1 to 7:1.[3] One of the factors inflating US numbers was that most dogfights took place over enemy-controlled area. The only way to confirm kills was through gun camera photography. USAF pilots were credited with a kill if the gun camera showed their guns striking the enemy aircraft even if no one actually saw it go down.[4] However, Soviet kill claims were also highly exaggerated, based upon inherent flaws in their film grading procedures. For instance, the S-13 gun camera was not aligned with either the gunsight or either cannons' ballistics. It ran only while the firing buttons were depressed. Film graders commonly included unit commanders and political commisars who would confirm a "kill"—sometimes even if one had not been claimed by a pilot—when the camera's crosshairs touched the target for two movie frames. During the first 16 months of combat Soviet V-VS units claimed 218 F-86s destroyed when only 36 (35 to the two elite IADs and one to the 50th IAD) had been lost. This results in a 600 per cent inflation rate in victory credits over actual Sabres destroyed. However, these figures are complicated by the fact that the Americans routinely attributed combat losses to landing accidents and other causes.[5]

The last moments of a U.S. Air Force recon C-130 Hercules in gun camera of the Soviet MiG-17. 2 September 1958.
Gun camera sequence photos showing a North Vietnamese MiG-17 being hit and shot down by 20 mm shells from a U.S. Air Force F-105D Thunderchief during the Vietnam War 3 June 1967
Nguyễn Văn Cốc, the most successful pilot of the Vietnam War. He shot down 9 aircraft[1]

The Vietnam War saw a move away from cannon fire to air-to-air missiles.[6] Although US forces maintained air supremacy throughout the war, there were still occasional dogfights and US and North Vietnamese aces. The North Vietnamese side claimed the Vietnam People's Air Force had 17 aces throughout the war, including Nguyen Van Coc, who is also the top ace of Vietnam War with 9 kills: seven acknowledged by the United States Air Force.

During the 1947 conflict over Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Air Force did not engage the Pakistan Air Force in air-to-air combat; however, it did provide effective transport and close air support to the Indian troops.[7] The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 was the first time the Indian Air Force actively engaged an enemy air force.[8] By the time the conflict had ended, India lost between 65 and 75 aircraft and Pakistan lost 20 aircraft.[9][10] The Indian Air Force lost 45 aircraft during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 and the Pakistani Air Force lost 75 aircraft.[11]

During the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–88, there were nearly 1,000 air-to-air engagements between Iran and Iraq, including the only known instances of helicopters dogfighting and shooting down other helicopters.[12] The Falklands War of 1982 witnessed air combat between Argentine and British military aircraft. The Falkland Islands' runways were short and thus unable to support fighter jets, forcing Argentina to launch fighters from the mainland, which had an adverse effect on their loiter time. The Argentine forces lost 23 aircraft in air-to-air combat, out of a total of 134 fixed wing aircraft and helicopters lost during the conflict. During the 1990–91 Persian Gulf War 33 of Iraq's 750 fixed wing aircraft were claimed as downed (23 were confirmed), compared to 14 coalition aircraft claimed as downed (4 losses are confirmed, one F/A-18 Hornet and three UAVs[13]).[14][15]

Aircraft lost to air-to-air combat
Conflict Air Force Aircraft lost to air-to-air combat Reference
US incursions into Yugoslav airspace (1946) United States Air Force 2[A 2] [16]
Indonesian National Revolution Royal Indian Air Force 2 [17]
Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) Royal Air Force 5 [18]
Israeli Air Force 7 (Western claim); 0-1 (Israeli claim) [19][20][21][22]
Egypt Air Force 15 [19]
Syrian Air Force 2 [19]
Korean War (1950–1953)[A 3] PLAAF 379 (Chinese claim); 750 PLAAF & NKAF (US claim) [23][24]
North Korean Air Force 750 PLAAF & NKAF (US claim)[25]
US Aircraft 146 (US claim) [26][27]
UN Coalition Aircraft 1,097 (Soviet claim), 139 (UN claim)[A 4] [28]
South Korean Air Force 135
US incursions into Soviet airspace (1950–1970) US Aircraft 16 [A 5]
Soviet Air Defence Forces 3 [A 6]
Catalina affair Swedish Air Force 2
Avro Lincoln shoot down incident Royal Air Force 1 [29]
Air battle over Merklín USAFE 1[A 7] [17]
Bombing of Plaza de Mayo (1955) Argentine Naval Aviation 1 [30]
Suez Crisis (1956) Egyptian Air Force 7–9 [31]
Israeli Air Force 1 [32]
Secret electronic surveillance missions US Navy 2 [33]
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis[A 8] PLAAF 32 (ROC claim); 5 (PRC claim) [34]
ROCAF 14 (PRC claim); 3 (ROC claim) [34]
Vietnam War (1959–1975)[A 9] Vietnam Air Force 131 (North Vietnam claim); 195 (US claim) [35][36]
US Aircraft 128 (US Claim), 266 (North Vietnam claim) [37][38][39][40]
Republic of Vietnam Air Force 72 [36]
Taiwanese incursion into Burma airspace ROCAF 1 [16]
Dutch–Indonesian Conflict Indonesian Air Force 1 [17]
Project Dark Gene (1960–79) Soviet Air Force 1 [41][42]
Imperial Iranian Air Force 6 [41][43][44][45]
Bay of Pigs Invasion Brigade 2506 10 (Confirmed) [46]
Six-Day War (1967) Israeli Air Force 12 (Israeli claim); 20 (ACIG claim) [20][21][47][22]
Egypt Air Force
Syrian Air Force
Royal Jordanian Air Force		 64–72[A 10] [48][49]
Indo-Pakistan War of 1965 Indian Air Force 60-75 [50]
Pakistan Air Force 20 [10]
War of Attrition (1967-1970) Egypt Air Force 60 (Egyptian claim);113 (Israeli claim) [48]
Israeli Air Force 4 (Israeli claim) [22]
Football War[A 11] Air Force of El Salvador 3 [51]
Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 Indian Air Force 45 [52][53]
Pakistan Air Force 75 [53]
Turkish invasion of Cyprus Turkish Air Force 1 (Greek claim) [54]
Yom Kippur War (1973) Israeli Air Force 5 (Israeli claim) [22]
Egypt Air Force
Syrian Air Force		 277 (Israeli claim) [22]
Libyan–Egyptian War (1977) Libyan Air Force 4–5 [55]
Egyptian Air Force 1 [55]
Iranian and Soviet airspace incursions (1970s) Imperial Iranian Army Aviation + IIAF 2[A 12] + 3 [45][56][57]
Soviet Air Forces 1 [58]
Soviet–Afghan War Afghan National Army Air Corps 8 [59]
Pakistan Air Force 1 [59]
Islamic Republic of Iran Army Aviation 2[A 13] [60]
Mojahedin 4 [61]
Nicaraguan Revolution Nicaraguan Air Force 2 [62]
Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) Iraqi Aircraft 234 (confirmed) [63][64]
Iranian Aircraft 73 (confirmed) [65]
Soviet Air Forces 3 (Iranian claim); 0 (Soviet claim) [66][67]
Syrian Air Force 3 [68]
Algerian Government Aircraft 1 [68]
Turkish Air Force 1 [69]
South African Border War South African Air Force 1 [70]
National Air Force of Angola 2 [70]
US Freedom of Navigation operations near Libya (1980–1989) Libyan Air Force 4 [71]
Salvadoran Civil War FMLN supply aircraft 1 [72]
Falklands War Argentine Naval Aviation/Argentine Air Force 23 [73]
Army Air Corps 1 [74]
1982 Lebanon War Syrian Air Force 82–86 (Israeli claim) [75][76][77]
Israeli Air Force 1 (Israeli claim); 42 (Syrian claim); 3 (ACIG claim) [78][79][80][22]
Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009) Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam 1 [81]
Tanker War (1984–1988) Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force 1 (Iranian claim) 2 (Saudi claim) [82][83]
Persian Gulf War (1990–1991) United States Navy 4 (US claim)[84][85]; 12 (Iraqi claim) [14][15]
Royal Air force 1 (Iraqi claim) [86]
Italian Air Force 1 (Iraqi claim) [86]
Royal Saudi Air Force 1 (Iraqi claim) [87]
Iraqi Air Force 23 (Iraqi claim); 44 (Coalition claim) [14][15]
Iraqi no-fly zones enforcement US Aircraft 3[A 14] [88]
Iraqi Air Force 5
Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995) Italian Army 1[A 15] [89]
1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempts Bolivarianos 3 [90]
Operation Deny Flight Republika Srpska Air Force 5 [91]
Cenepa War (1995) Ecuadorian Air Force 1 (confirmed), 2 (Ecuadorian claim) [92]
Aegean dispute (1996) Turkish Air Force 1 [93]
Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998–2000) Eritrean Air Force 2–6 [94]
Ethiopian Air Force Up to 7 [95][96]
Operation Allied Force Yugoslav Air Force 5 + 1 heavily damaged, later destroyed on the ground [97]
NATO Air Force 1 + 1 Tomahawk [98][99]
Atlantique incident Pakistan Navy 1 [100]
2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff Indian Air Force 1 IAI SearcherII drone[A 16] [101][102]
Iran–Israel proxy conflict   Hezbollah UAVs 2 [103][104]
2008 Georgian spy plane shootdowns Georgian Air Force 1 [105][106]
Iraq War (2003–2011) Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force 1[A 17] [107]
War in Afghanistan United States Air Force 1[A 18] [108]
Syrian Civil War Syrian Air Force 7 [109][110][111][112][113][114]
Russian Air Force 1 [115]
"Pro-Syria regime" forces 2[A 19] [116][117]
Iran–Israel proxy conflict  Iran 1 [118]
War in Donbass Ukrainian Air Force 1 (Ukrainian claim) [119]
Second Libyan Civil War Turkish Air Force 1 (LNA claim) [120]
Second Yemeni Civil War Houthis 2 (Arab Coalition claim) [121]
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt Peace at Home Council 2 [122]
Balochistan Conflict Iran 1 [123][124][125]
2019 India–Pakistan standoff Indian Air Force 1 (Indian claim) 2 (Pakistani claim) [126]
Pakistani Air Force 0 (Pakistani claim); 2 (1 aircraft and 1 drone as per Indian claim) [127][128][129][130][131]

See also

Footnotes
  1. During the Korean War experienced Soviet pilots flew against USAF forces.[2]
  2. Two US C-47s shoot down by Yugoslavian Yak-3 over Northern Yugoslavia.
  3. First combat instance of a jet shooting down a jet happened during this war.
  4. Soviet claim of planes shot down
  5. See the US Soviet air-to-air combat article
  6. See the Air-to-air combat losses between the USSR and US article
  7. US F-84E Shootdown shoot down by Czech Mig-15 over Merlín.
  8. First combat use of guided air-to-air missiles occurred during this war.
  9. First combat instance of a manned aircraft shooting down a UAV happened during this war.
  10. Numbers include unconfirmed losses
  11. The last war in which piston-engined fighter planes fought each other.
  12. In 1978, a Soviet Mig-23 Flogger intercepted 4 Iranian CH-47 Chinook helicopters over Karakum Canal inside Soviet airspace, shooting one of them down and damaging another. The damaged helicopter managed to land inside the Soviet Union and its crew was captured by Soviet forces. Later, the crew was released and the helicopter was allowed to be repaired and return to Iran.
  13. In 1988, two Soviet Mig-23 Floggers shot down a pair of Iranian AH-1J SuperCobra attack helicopters over western Afghanistan.
  14. The 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident, sometimes referred to as the Black Hawk Incident, was a friendly fire incident over northern Iraq that occurred on April 14, 1994 during Operation Provide Comfort. The pilots of two United States Air Force (USAF) F-15 fighter aircraft, operating under the control of a USAF airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft, misidentified two United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters as Iraqi Mil Mi-24 "Hind" helicopters. The F-15 pilots fired on and destroyed both helicopters, killing all 26 military service members and civilians from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Turkey, and the Kurdish community. The third loss was a UAV Predator shot down by a Mig-25 in December 2002.
  15. An Italian Army Bell 206 helicopter was shot down by a Serb Mig over Novi Marof, near Varaždin, Croatia, on 7 January 1992. One French and four Italian military observers were killed. The incident prompted the resignation of the Yugoslav Minister of Defence. The helicopter was part of a European Community mission in Croatia.
  16. On the night of 8th June 2002, a pair of IAI SearcherII UAV of Indian Air Force were detected inside Pakistan by "mobile observation units". Pakistan Air Force scrambled 2 Mirage III's and 4 F-7P fighter jets which failed to detect and intercept the drones. Finally a pair of F-16 B's of Pakistan Air Force succeeded to intercept and shoot down one of the drones using their Aim-9Ls.
  17. According to U.S and Iraqi sources, in February 2009 a USAF F-16 intercepted and shot down an Iranian UAV that had violated Iraqi airspace.
  18. According to U.S sources, in September 2009 a USAF fighter intercepted and shot down an out of control armed MQ-9 Reaper UAV, near Afghan border.
  19. On June 8, 2017, an American F-15E shot down a Shahed-129 UCAV, which the US military said was attacking American-backed forces. The US military said the drone, which appeared to be made by Iran, was being operated by "pro-Syria regime" forces.[116] A second pro-regime Shahed-129 was shot down by an American F-15E on June 19.[117]

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