List of aircraft shootdowns
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.
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Military aircraft
Cold War
- Catalina affair (June 1952)
- Air battle over Merklín (March 10, 1953)
- U-2 shootdown incident (May 1, 1960)
- 1964 T-39 shootdown incident (January 28, 1964)
- Gulf of Sidra incident (August 19, 1981)
- Gulf of Sidra incident (January 4, 1989)
Yom Kippur War
- Ofira Air Battle (October 6, 1973)
Falklands War
- British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident (June 6, 1982)
- Argentine air forces shot down in the Falklands War (1982)
The Troubles
- British Army Gazelle downing (February 17, 1978)
- British Army Gazelle shootdown (February 11, 1990)
- British Army Lynx shootdown (March 20, 1994)
Persian Gulf War
See also: Air engagements of the Gulf War
- U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet shootdown (January 17, 1991)
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown (November 20, 1991)
Iraqi no-fly zones
- UH-60 Black Hawk friendly fire shootdown incident (April 14, 1994)
Croatian War of Independence
- 1992 European Community Monitor Mission helicopter downing (January 7, 1992)
Bosnian War
- Banja Luka incident (February 28, 1994)
- Mrkonjić Grad incident (June 1995)
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
- 1999 F-117A shoot-down (March 27, 1999)
Second Chechen War
- Khankala Mi-26 shootdown (August 19, 2002)
Iraq War
- AH-64D Apache shot down near Karbala by the Iraqi Republican Guard (23 March 2003).[1]
- CH-47D Chinook, shot down with an SA-7 missile near Fallujah (November 2, 2003).[2]
- UH-60L Black Hawk shot down near Tikrit (November 7, 2003).[3]
- Two UH-60L Black Hawks collide and crash after one aircraft coming under fire over Mosul (November 15, 2003).[4]
- AH-64D Apache shot down near Abu Grahib.[5]
- Blackwater USA Mi-8 Hip shootdown incident (April 21, 2005).
War in Donbass
- Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 shoot-down (June 14, 2014)
Syrian Civil War
- June 2012 interception of Turkish aircraft (June 22, 2012}
- 2013 helicopter incident (September 16, 2013)
- March 2014 Turkish shootdown of a Syrian aircraft (March 24, 2014)
- 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown (November 24, 2015)
Civilian aircraft
- List of airliner shootdown incidents – dealing with civilian airliners
See also
- List of Soviet aircraft losses in Afghanistan
- List of Russian aircraft losses in the Second Chechen War
- List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War
- List of Coalition aircraft losses in Afghanistan
Notes
- ↑ "1999 USAF Serial Numbers". www.joebaugher.com. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
- ↑ "Helicopter crash kills 16 soldiers headed for leave". CNN. 3 November 2007. Archived from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 8 June 2007.
- ↑ "Crash Kills 6 GIs". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
- ↑ "US helicopters crash over N Iraq". BBC. 2003-11-16. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
- ↑ "U.S. Apache Shot Down in Baghdad | Fox News". Fox News. 2004-04-11. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
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