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Air-to-air combat is the engagement of combat aircraft in warfare in which primarily fixed-wing aircraft attempt to destroy enemy aircraft using guns, rockets and missiles. 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.
During the conflict the American F-86 Sabre pilots claimed to have destroyed 792 MiG-15s in air-to-air combat for a loss of 78 Sabres – a phenomenal 10 to 1 kills-to-losses ratio. [3] The Soviets claimed to have downed over 600 Sabres.
This is a list of Ukrainian, Russian and Russian-separatist aircraft losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War based on visual evidences or official confirmation from involved parties. It includes helicopters , fixed-wing aircraft and drones (UAVs), and losses from the War in Donbas , the current Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Wagner Group ...
The pilot, Lieutenant Robert Dwyer, was lost over the North Persian Gulf after a successful mission to Iraq. Dwyer served in Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8). His body was never recovered (officially listed as KIA-BNR). February 9 – An AV-8B Harrier II (Bureau Number 162081) was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. The pilot, Captain Russell A.C ...
All told, the U.S. Air Force flew 5.25 million sorties over South Vietnam, North Vietnam, northern and southern Laos, and Cambodia, losing 2,251 aircraft: 1,737 to hostile action, and 514 in accidents. 2,197 of the losses were fixed-wing, and the remainder rotary-wing.
Poland: Total losses were 398 lost, 112 flew to then neutral Romania, 286 destroyed, 1 missing and unaccounted for. Aircraft losses by type: 116 fighters, 112 dive bombers, 81 reconnaissance aircraft, 36 bombers, 21 sea planes, and 9 transports. The Polish Air Force evacuated one day after the Soviet Invasion of Poland, September 18, 1939 ...
During the course of the Syrian Civil War, aviation shootdowns, incidents, and accidents have taken place between different state and non-state actors.By mid-2013, according to the website Strategy Page, the Syrian Arab Republic Air Force losses totaled nearly a hundred fixed-wing aircraft, as well as one hundred helicopters.
Category: Air-to-air combat operations and battles. ... Air-to-air combat losses between the Soviet Union and the United States; Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base; B.