HUNGARY
Republic of Hungary (Magyarország, Magyar Köztársaság)
Cold War
VICTORIES
NAME CONFIRMED FLT UNIT COMMENTS
Magyar, Sandor 1 - 24FR ML 1., friendly fire
unknown - 1 2.,
Comments:
- ML: Magyar Néphadsereg légiereje / Air Force of the Hungarian People's Army
- FLT: forced to land
- Fratricide combat between the Hungarian MiG-15s and Soviet MiG-17s, that happened when these have mistaken each other for a NATO plane they were trying to intercept, over Hungary, in January 1956.
- Some sources present that the aircraft C-47 was forced to land by Soviet pilot (Lednicer, David: Intrusions, Overflights, Shootdowns and Defections During the Cold War and Thereafter, http://myplace.frontier.com/~anneled/ColdWar.html, Magnus, Alan: Air Aces Home Page, Cold War Era, http://users.accesscomm.ca/magnusfamily/airaces1.htm, ACIG Team: Soviet Air-to-Air Victories of the Cold War, List of confirmed, claimed, and probable air-to-air victories scored by the Soviet pilots in different engagements during the Cold War, 1948-1989, http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_301.shtml http://s188567700.online.de/CMS/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=47, ...).
Air-to-Air Victories
| Date | Unit | Aircraft | Pilot | Weapon | Victim | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19. 11. 1951 | MiG-15bis | unknown | 23/37mm | C-47 | USAF | |
| 21. 01. 1956 | 24FR ML | MiG-15bis | Magyar,S. | 23/37mm | MiG-17PF | V-VS (USSR) |
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis Fagot, Magyar Néphadsereg légiereje.
Sources & Literature
- Якубович, Николай: Истребитель МиГ-15. Гроза «Летающих крепостей», Издательства: Коллекция, Яуза, Эксмо, 2009 г.
- Lednicer, David: Intrusions, Overflights, Shootdowns and Defections During the Cold War and Thereafter, http://myplace.frontier.com/~anneled/ColdWar.html
- ACIG Team: European Air-to-Air Victories, http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_303.shtml.
- Gleize, Jean-Paul: Aces, http://www.igleize.fr/aces/homeaces.htm.
