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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
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]
Cold War. During the Cold War many nations including the Soviet Union and the United States were fiercely protective of their airspaces. Aircraft which entered an opposing nation's airspace were often shot down in air-to-air combat. The incidents produced a heightened sense of paranoia on both sides that resulted in the downing of civilian craft.
– December 1992: Russian and Abkhazian force shot down a Georgian Mi-8 with a SA-7 or SA-14 missile. [124] – 15 January 1993: Georgian forces shot down a Russian Su-25 ground attack fighter near Tkvaritchely. [124] – 15 January 1993: A Georgian Mi-8 helicopter is shot down in the area as well. [124]
The Catalina affair ( Swedish: Catalinaaffären) was a military confrontation and Cold War -era diplomatic crisis in June 1952, in which Soviet Air Force fighter jets shot down two Swedish aircraft over international waters in the Baltic Sea . The first aircraft to be shot down was an unarmed Swedish Air Force Tp 79, a derivative of the Douglas ...
A 9K38 Igla launcher and missile. On 19 August 2002, Chechen separatist fighters launched a Russian-made 9K38 Igla shoulder-fired, heat-seeking surface-to-air missile which hit an overloaded Mil Mi-26 heavy transport helicopter of the 487th Separate Helicopter Regiment, causing it to crash-land and burn at Khankala military air base near Chechnya's capital city of Grozny.
The 1994 Iranian Air Force C-130 shootdown occurred on March 17, 1994, when an Iranian Air Force C-130E military transport aircraft, carrying Iranian embassy personnel from Moscow to Tehran, was shot down by Armenian military forces near the city of Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh, an area which had been under armed conflict since 1988.
Ukraine says it downed a Russian Su-24 fighter plane over the Black Sea near Snake Island as the aircraft was on its way to attack Odesa region.. Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Ukraine’s “sky ...