Aircraft losses in Vietnam

[TacticalTaco]

Some pretty mind boggling numbers, especially the F-4 Phantom. We lost thousands of bombers, fighters, transport planes, helicopters and recon planes, most to SAM and AAA batteries, we shot down less than 200 enemy aircraft (Even though their air force was tiny compared to ours)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War

529 F-4 Phantoms shot down in combat, over a hundred more lost to crashes.

 

[Cadcom]

Some pretty mind boggling numbers, especially the F-4 Phantom. We lost thousands of bombers, fighters, transport planes, helicopters and recon planes, most to SAM and AAA batteries, we shot down less than 200 enemy aircraft (Even though their air force was tiny compared to ours)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War

529 F-4 Phantoms shot down in combat, over a hundred more lost to crashes.

Great link. The Army chopper numbers are staggering also!

 

[DinkyDau]

Great link. The Army chopper numbers are staggering also!

Don't have to tell me I spent my whole Tour on them..Went down more than once..DD

 

[Cadcom]

Don't have to tell me I spent my whole Tour on them..Went down more than once..DD

I can't imagine how that felt.

This is sobering.
2,709 people were killed while in Hueys.
1,074 pilots
1,103 crew members
532 American passengers (we do not have a good count on Vietnamese, their numbers probably exceed the number
of American passengers)
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2,709

 

[B. Byrd]

That's hard to believe. Those F-4's were beasts. I would have expected to have lost helicopter and recons and transports. Those were bad times.

 

[potenza]

Dam!

 

[DinkyDau]

Wart Hogs were you friend..DD

 

[Hasselhoss]

Wart Hogs were you friend..DD

As in A-10 or was there another aircraft called the wart hog before that?

 

[TacticalTaco]

That's hard to believe. Those F-4's were beasts. I would have expected to have lost helicopter and recons and transports. Those were bad times.

Fast, but a huge signature for SAM's and AAA radar. Soviet missiles at that time were very impressive. It was around the 1960's they figured out their aircraft companies would never be able to produce planes as good as ours and focused more on air defense.

 

[DV8]

DD. thank you for your service. Next time you come down for lunch. DV8 is buying again

Dv8