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South Vietnam lost 1,018 aircraft and helicopters from January 1964 to September 1973. [6] 877 Republic of Vietnam aircraft were captured at war's end (1975) [7] Of the 2,750 [8] aircraft and helicopters received by South Vietnam, only about 308 survived (240 flew to Thailand or US warships [9] and 68 returned to the United States [10]).
January 18 – An A-6E Intruder (Bureau Number 152928) was shot down by anti-aircraft artillery two miles from the Iraqi shore after dropping mines on a waterway linking the Iraqi naval base of Umm Qasr with the Persian Gulf. The USN package was engaged by ZU-23-2 ground anti-aircraft guns and Iraqi naval vessels.
Possibly lost during the fight for the airport in February. [645] 4 April Mi Mil-8 RF-04812 was destroyed in Ukraine; pilot lost. [646] [647] 5 April Ka-52 Shot down by a Stugna-P anti-tank guided missile. [648] [649] (2) 21 April Mi-8, Mi-28 Shot down by Ukrainian forces using 9K38 Igla MANPADS in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. [650] [651] 15 April Ka-52
More than 15 percent of the approximately 2,350 Lockheed C-130 Hercules production hulls have been lost, including 70 by the US Air Force and the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Not all US C-130 losses have been crashes, 29 of those listed below were destroyed on the ground by enemy action or other non-flying accidents.
The aircraft veered onto the left runway when its landing gear collapsed upon landing. [9] 17 April 2006: Pilots flying a Boeing 777 from Hanoi to Frankfurt lost communication with ground control for more than an hour as the aircraft flew over Ukraine, Poland and the Czech Republic.
A General Dynamic F-16 fighter jet of the Ukrainian Air Force crashed in an undisclosed location in Ukraine. The pilot of the aircraft, Oleksii Mes, died in the accident. [437] [438] 28 August. A Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina crashed into Jablaničko lake after hitting a power line. One of the 4 ...
In total, the U.S. lost 3,374 fixed wing aircraft in combat during the war; in both North and South Vietnam. According to the North Vietnamese, 31% were shot down by S-75 missiles (1,046 aircraft, or 6 missiles per one kill); 60% were shot down by anti-aircraft guns; and 9% were shot down by MiG fighters.
When South Vietnam was overrun by PAVN forces on 30 April 1975, approximately 877 aircraft were captured by the PAVN. Of that number, 41 were F-5Es and 95 were A-37s. [22] When Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1979, former RVNAF A-37s flew most of the ground support missions. These aircraft were more suited to the role than the MiGs.