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Mongolian People's Army Aviation (Монголын Ардын Армийн Нисэх Хүчин)
                                               VICTORIES
NAME                                     COMFIRMED    DAMAGED       UNIT                 COMMENTS

Demberel                                     1           1          Mongolian Air Corps  1.
Dori                                         1           1          Mongolian Air Corps  gunner, 1.

  1. Mongolian sources state that a Mongolian R-5 serialled '5', piloted by Demberel and gunner Dori, attacked the hostile vehicle convoy and destroyed a truck transporting 28 soldiers. Allegedly Demberel also engaged two enemy aircraft in the air. One of which was shot down, the other was damaged and fled making this the first Mongolian air combat.

Air-to-Air Victories

Date Time Unit Aircraft Pilot Weapon Victim Country Place
31th March 1936     R-5Sh '5' Demberel
Dori (gunner)
  e/a Mongolia
31th March 1936     R-5Sh '5' Demberel
Dori (gunner)
  e/a (damaged) Mongolia


R-5

R-5Sh, Mongolian People's Army Aviation (Монголын Ардын Армийн Нисэх Хүчин).

Sources & Literature
  1. Gleize, Jean-Paul: Aces, http://www.igleize.fr/aces/homeaces.htm.
  2. Кондратьев, Вячеслав: Битва над степью, Авиация в советско-японском вооруженном конфликте на реке Халхин-Гол, Издательство Фонда содействия авиации "Русские витязи", 2008 г.
  3. Kotelnikov, Vladimir: Etoile rouge contre Soleil levant, Combats aériens du Nomonhan mai-septembre 1939, in Batailles aériennes, N° 50, Octobre-Novembre-Décembre 2009.
  4. Kotelnikov, Vladimir M.: Air War Over Khalkhin Gol, The Nomonhan Incident, Air Wars #2, SAM Publications, 2010.
  5. Walg, A.J.: Wings Over the Steppes: Aerial warfare in Mongolia 1930–1945: Part One, in Air Enthusiast, No. 66, November/December 1996. pp. 18–23. ISSN 0143-5450.
  6. Walg, A.J.: Wings Over the Steppes: Aerial warfare in Mongolia 1930–1945: Part Two, in Air Enthusiast, No. 67, January–February 1997. pp. 25–23. ISSN 0143-5450.
  7. Walg, A.J.: Wings Over the Steppes: Aerial warfare in Mongolia 1930–1945: Part Three, in Air Enthusiast, No. 68, March–April 1997. pp. 70–73. ISSN 0143-5450.

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