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None, AFAIK. All prox-hits ended up having the plane 'land' anywhere but an airstrip, non-recoverable.

 

Again, AFAIK.

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There was the last QF-106 drone that was brought down by a combination of an AIM-120, an AIM-9 and a burst of 20mm rounds, in that order, can't remember if it was by an F-15 or F-16.

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There was a Yugoslav MiG-29 that took a hit, lost an engine and cracked the windshield, landed, then later took off on a single engine to ferry to a different airbase, IIRC.

 

-SK

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There was the last QF-106 drone that was brought down by a combination of an AIM-120, an AIM-9 and a burst of 20mm rounds, in that order, can't remember if it was by an F-15 or F-16.

 

Correction: The last QF-106A was downed by a combination of an AIM-120, 20mm rounds and then an AIM-9M, in January 1998. The goal of these missions was to make the drone last as long as possible, with the aim of taking multiple hits each. I have no links to back up my information, sorry.

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There was a Yugoslav MiG-29 that took a hit, lost an engine and cracked the windshield, landed, then later took off on a single engine to ferry to a different airbase, IIRC.

 

-SK

 

Any other details on what happened? AFAIK, only 10 AMRAAMs were fired in Allied Force, for 6 kills.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/792557/posts

 

Yugoslav aviation enthusiast Mark Nixon has been back to Yugoslavia and compilied info about those 11 MiG-29s destroyed. This was in conjunction with the 127th Fighter Squadrons combat and accident reports. With his contacts within the RV i PVO Nixon revealed all in his tribute to the "Gallant Knights". This was published in Air Forces Monthly, January 2002 issue. Of the 6 destroyed in the air a seventh was combat damaged. The pilot, Major Dragan Ilic, managed to put his crippled MiG-29 down with an emergency landing at Nis airfield. From Ilic's combat report from 24th March 1999:

I had the signal that I was locked on by an enemy missile. A fireball pushed the plane and the aircraft shook. The cockpit glazing cracked and fogged. I didn't feel any changes in engine performance and I was thinking how to save the plane. I pointed the plane to my home airfield at low speed, around Mach 0.5. All would have been different if the cracked glazing failed, I would have to had to eject and sacrifice the MiG.

 

Subsequently USAF F-16CJ, serial 90-0830, had its MiG-29 kill removed while stationed in Italy.

 

Major Illic's combat damaged aircraft, serial 18104, was later stripped and pushed out as a decoy and subsequently destroyed on the 11th May 1999 in a cluster munition strike. The cockpit imagery of this was released on the 19th May and can still be found at The Federation of American Scienctists website and NATO website.

 

-SK

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