List of aircraft shootdowns

List of aircraft shootdowns

This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.

Military aircraft

*World War II
**Battle of Britain (May-October, 1941)
**Death of Isoroku Yamamoto (April 18, 1943)

*Vietnam War
**Operation Bolo (January 2, 1967)
**Operation Linebacker (9 May - 23 October 1972)

*Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
**Operation Chengiz Khan (December 3, 1971)

*Yom Kippur War
**Ofira Air Battle (October 6, 1973)

*Cold War
**U-2 Crisis of 1960
**Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)
**Gulf of Sidra incident (1989)

*Post-Gulf War
**Black Hawk Incident (April 1994) (Friendly Fire)

*Yugoslav Civil War (1991-1995)
**Banja Luka incident (February 1994)
**Mrkonjić Grad incident (June 1995)

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
*Aviation accidents and incidents in Iraq War
*List of Coalition aircraft losses in Afghanistan


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