CUBA
Operations in Angola
VICTORIES
NAME DESTROYED DAMAGED AIRFORCE
Serria, Eduardo Gonzalez 1 - FAPA-DAA
unknowf (pilot of MiG-21MF) 1 - FAPA-DAA
unknowf (pilot of MiG-21MF) 1 - FAPA-DAA
Rivas, Alberto Ley - 1 FAPA-DAA
Rivas victory is the only one fully and openly detailed by Cuban sources,
although the DAAFAR Chief for 1987 - 1999, General de Division Ruben
Martinez Puentes, declared that there had been several victories: "Our
pilots shot down not just a few South African aircraft" (Luis Baez, Secretos
de Generales, Editorial Si-Mar, S.A., La Habana 196, Pg. 236). For example,
Teniente Coronel Eduardo Gonzalez Sarria, pilot of a MiG-23 claims having
shot down a Mirage.
Russian and Polish sources also mention several victories for the Cuban
MiG-23s. Vladimir Ilyn, a well known Russian author, specialized on the
Russian TsAGI (Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute - a place to where
information on the worldwide use of the MiGs is sent) assigns 3 victories
for the MiG-23s in Angola (2 Mirage and 1 Impala) plus 1 Mirage that made it
back to base, albeit damaged, but crashed upon landing (probably Piercy's),
a total of 4 victories in 1987 - 1988. Other sources mention the rumor about
the possible shooting down of a helicopter (supposedly a Puma or an Alouette
III) by MiG-23, using R-60 in the border region with Namibia.
- ACIG Team: Cuban Air-to-Air Victories, http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_165.shtml
- Cooper, Tom - Kyzer, Jonathan: Angola: Claims & Reality about SAAF Losses, http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/printer_184.shtml
- Lednicer, David: Aircraft Downed During the Cold War and Thereafter, http://home.sprynet.com/~anneled/ColdWar.html
- Magnus, Allan: Air Aces Home Page, http://users.accesscomm.ca/magnusfamily/airaces1.htm
- Urribarres, Rubén - Litle, Mike: The Cuban MiGs, http://www.laahs.com/art26.htm
