Military aircraft

• World War II
  • Battle of Britain
    Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...
    
     (May–October, 1941)
  • Death of Isoroku Yamamoto
    Death of Isoroku Yamamoto
    Operation Vengeance was carried out to assassinate Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on April 18, 1943, during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was killed on Bougainville Island when...
    
     (April 18, 1943)
  • Battle of Midway
    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea and six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy decisively defeated...
    
     (June 4, 1942)

• Vietnam War
  • Operation Bolo
    Operation Bolo
    Operation Bolo was a deception programme during the Vietnam War, to lure Không Quân Nhân Dân Việt Nam - Vietnam People's Air Force fighters into battle where the odds were stacked against the defenders; devised to reverse alarming loss rates among United States Air Force fighter bombers flying...
    
     (January 2, 1967)
  • Operation Linebacker
    Operation Linebacker
    Operation Linebacker was the title of a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 9 May to 23 October 1972, during the Vietnam War....
    
     (9 May – 23 October 1972)

• Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
  • Operation Chengiz Khan
    Operation Chengiz Khan
    Operation Chengiz Khan was the code name assigned to the pre-emptive strikes carried out by the Pakistani Air Force on the forward airbases and radar installations of the Indian Air Force on the evening of 3 December 1971, and marked the formal initiation of hostilities of the Indo-Pakistani war...
    
     (December 3, 1971)

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

• Cold War
  • U-2 Crisis of 1960
    U-2 Crisis of 1960
    The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on May 1, 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union.The United States government at...
    
    
  • Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)
    Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)
    In the first Gulf of Sidra incident, 19 August 1981, two Libyan Su-22 Fitter attack aircraft were shot down by two American F-14 Tomcats off of the Libyan coast.-Background:...
    
    
  • Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (September 1, 1983)
  • Gulf of Sidra incident (1989)
    Gulf of Sidra incident (1989)
    The second Gulf of Sidra incident occurred on 4 January 1989 when two US F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan MiG-23 Flogger-Es that gave all appearances of attempting to engage them, as had happened seven years prior in the first Gulf of Sidra incident ....
    
    

• Falklands War
  • 1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident
    1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident
    On 6 June 1982, during the Falklands War, the British Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer engaged and destroyed a British Army Gazelle helicopter, serial number XX377, in a friendly fire incident, killing all four occupants...
    
    

• Post-Gulf War
  • Black Hawk Incident (April 1994) (friendly fire)

• War in Bosnia
  • Banja Luka incident
    Banja Luka incident
    The Banja Luka incident on February 28, 1994, was an incident in which six Republika Srpska Air Force J-21 Jastreb single-seat light attack jets were engaged, and four of them shot down, by United States Air Force F-16s southwest of Banja Luka, Bosnia....
    
     (February 1994)
  • Mrkonjić Grad incident
    Mrkonjic Grad incident
    The Mrkonjić Grad incident was the shooting down of a United States Air Force F-16C by a Bosnian Serb Army SA-6 surface-to-air missile near Mrkonjić Grad, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on June 2, 1995...
    
     (June 1995)

• Afghan Civil War
  • The Taliban Shot down a fighter jet of General Abdul Rashid Dostum
    Abdul Rashid Dostum
    Abdul Rashid Dostum is a former pro-Soviet fighter during the Soviet war in Afghanistan and is considered by many to be the leader of Afghanistan's Uzbek community and the party Junbish-e Milli-yi Islami-yi Afghanistan...
    
     near Faryab around March 1997

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