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– 5 September 1992: A Georgian Army helicopter is shot down by 14.5 mm heavy machine-gun fire from Abkhazian fighters. [124] – 14 December 1992: Georgian forces shot down a Russian Mi-8 helicopter using SA-14 MANPADs, killing 3 crew members and 56 passengers, mostly Russian refugees. [124]
Kleemann, who was married and had four children, was one of two Navy pilots assigned to the aircraft carrier Nimitz who shot down two Libyan fighters in the Gulf of Sirte on 19 August 1981, after the Libyans fired at the U.S. aircraft. Kleemann was stationed at Point Mugu Naval Air Station near Oxnard, Semcken said.
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. Flown by American pilot Francis Gary Powers , the aircraft had taken off from Peshawar , Pakistan, and crashed near Sverdlovsk (present-day Yekaterinburg), after being hit ...
Emily Atkinson. March 17, 2023 at 12:42 AM. Footage of what it described as a Russian aircraft conducting an unsafe intercept of a US Air Force surveillance drone in international airspace over ...
The air force said it shot down 87 cruise missiles and 27 drones of a total 158 aerial "targets" fired by Russia. Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said it was the "most massive air attack of this ...
The Ukrainian air force shot down a Russian early warning and control plane that can spot targets up to 650 kilometers (400 miles) away and a key command center aircraft that relays information to ...
On 9 May 2022, a Russian Su-35 fighter shot down a Mi-14 helicopter from the Ukrainian Navy Aviation killing Colonel Igor Bedzay, deputy head of the Ukrainian aicraft division of the Navy. [168] [169] As of August 2023, Russian aircraft was credited to have shot down 12 Ukrainian aircaft in air vs air engagements. [170]
A A1-SM Furia drone was shot down by Russian forces in Chernihiv. [372] 30 March: A UJ-22 Airborne drone was reported shot down by Russian Pantsir S1 air defenses. [373] [374] 2 April: A Bayraktar TB2, serial number T187 was lost in Kherson. [375] [376] 12 April: A Tu-143 drone was shot down over Kharkiv by Russian forces. [377] 12 April