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The USAF credited three kills to Captain Robert Gordon "Wilbur" Wright, [13] flying F-16C-40 #89-2137/RS, [14] using an AIM-120 AMRAAM and two AIM-9 Sidewinders; and one kill using an AIM-9 Sidewinder to Captain Stephen L. "Yogi" Allen [15] flying F-16C-40 #89-2009/RS [16] of the same unit. The Bosnian Serbs acknowledged the loss of five ...
In February 1994, Grady was involved in the Banja Luka incident where he, along with several other F-16 pilots, engaged Bosnian jets who were in violation of the no-fly zone. [9] Later, as part of the 555th Fighter Squadron based at Aviano Air Base, Italy, he was piloting one of two F-16s patrolling the skies above Bosnia on June 2, 1995. [10]
Operation Deliberate Force was a sustained air campaign conducted by NATO, in concert with the UNPROFOR ground operations, to undermine the military capability of the Army of Republika Srpska, which had threatened and attacked UN-designated "safe areas" in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War with the Srebrenica genocide and Markale massacres, precipitating the intervention.
On 2 June 1995, Captain Scott O'Grady of the United States Air Force was sent on a routine no-fly zone patrol in his F-16. While on patrol, O'Grady's F-16 was shot down by a Serb SA-6 surface-to-air missile system near Mrkonjić Grad. O'Grady ejected safely, but found himself trapped in Serb-controlled territory.
February 2 – An A-10A Thunderbolt II (Serial Number 80-0248) was shot down by an Igla-1 (SA-16) surface-to-air missile. The pilot, Captain Richard Dale Storr, was captured. He was released on March 6. February 5 – An F/A-18A Hornet (Bureau Number 163096) crashed in the Persian Gulf. The pilot, Lieutenant Robert Dwyer, was lost over the ...
The 510th, during Operation Deliberate Force, the 1995 NATO intervention in Bosnia, was the first F-16 Block 40 squadron to drop a laser-guided bomb. It also made the first combat use of night vision goggles in an F-16 during Operation Deliberate Guard, a follow-up operation.
During the GAO's investigation, USAF OPC officers confirmed that the rivalry between the F-15 and F-16 communities was particularly pronounced and intense partly due to the fact that F-16 aircraft had scored all the air-to-air combat kills in Iraq and Bosnia since the end of the Gulf War. Pilkington stated to the GAO that "the shootdown pilots ...
An F/A-18C crashes 16 March 16 March An F/A-18C crashes aboard the USS John F. Kennedy off the coast of North Carolina, injuring eight crewmen. [199] 20 March A Swiss Air Force Dassault Mirage IIIRS crashed near Sainte-Croix, Switzerland by bad weather conditions. It was the first loss of a Reconnaissance Mirage since the introduction in the 60'.