SYRIA
Middle East Skirmishes
The Syrian Arab Air Force (القوات الجوية العربية السورية / Al Quwwat al-Jawwiyah al Arabiya as-Souriy)
NAME DESTROYED DAMAGED UNIT COMMENTS unknown 1 1., 1 UAV unknown 1 1., 1 UAV unknown 1 [0+1] - 2., ½ Britten-Norman BN-2A-3 Islander unknown 1 [0+1] - 2., ½ Britten-Norman BN-2A-3 Islander unknown 1 [0+1] - 3., ½ UAV unknown 1 [0+1] - (*) 3., ½ UAV
- According to Syrian sources, no less than 10 Israeli UAVs were shot down by the SyAAF over Syria on average every year between 2001 and 2006, principally while flying along the Syrian-Jordanian and Syrian-Turkish borders, but sometimes as deep as 50km inside Syrian airspace. The first shoot-down occurred in late July 2001, and the last known – a MiG-23ML downing a UAV armed with air-to-air missiles – in October 2007.
- On 21 October 1989 two Syrian MiG-21s flew 20km deep into Turkish airspace and shot down a civilian Britten-Norman BN.2L (TC-KUN, c/n 272) light transport belonging to Turkish General Directorate of Land Registry (annexed unit of Ministry of Public Works and Settlement), killing all five on board.
- At the end of April 2002, unconfirmed reports claims a Syrian MiG-23ML shot down an Israeli UAV with an air-to-air missile near As-Suwayda.
| Air-to-Air Victories | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Time | Unit | Aircraft | Pilot | Weapon | Victim | Country | Place |
| 20. 10. 1989 | MiG-21 | unknown | ½ BN-2A-3 Islander | TKGM | Turkey | |||
| 20. 10. 1989 | MiG-21 | unknown | ½ BN-2A-3 Islander | TKGM | Turkey | |||
| 07. 2001 | unknown | ½ UAV | Israel | |||||
| 10. 2002 | MiG-23ML | unknown | ½ UAV | IDF | near As-Suwayda | |||
| 10. 2007 | MiG-23ML | unknown | ½ UAV | Israel | ||||
| Ground-to-Air Victories | ||||||||
| Date | Time | Unit | Crew | Weapon | Victim | Country | Place | |
| 10. 2002 | unknown | ½ UAV | IDF | near As-Suwayda | ||||
Comment:
| (*): | Anti-Aircraft Artillery |
| IDF : | Israeli Defense Force |
| TKGM : | Tapu Kadastro Genel Müdürlügü |
| UAV : | Unmanned aerial vehicle |
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21PF, Syrian Air Force / القوات الجوية العربية السورية.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23ML, Syrian Air Force / القوات الجوية العربية السورية.
Britten-Norman BN-2A-3 Islander, Tapu Kadastro Genel Müdürlügü.
Sources & Literature
- Cooper, Tom: Syrian Conflagration, The Syrian Civil War 2011-2013, Middle East@War, Book 1, Helion & Company, 2015. ISBN: ISBN 978-1-910294-10-9
- Cooper, Tom: A Short History of Syrian-Turkish border Incidents, in Combat Aircraft, No. 2, 2016.
- Rovenský, Dušan: Horké okamžiky nahorké hranici, Letecké incidenty na syrsko-tureckém pomezí, in ATM, No. 1, 2016.
- ACIG Team: Syrian Air-to-Air Victories since 1948, http://www.acig.info/CMS/.
- ASN Aviation Safety WikiBase, AviationSafetyNetwork, http://aviation-safety.net/database/.
- Cooper, Tom: Israeli - Syrian Shadow-Boxing, ACIG.org, http://www.acig.info/CMS/.
- List of aircraft shootdowns, WikipediA, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_shootdowns.
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, WikipediA - The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-23.
- Ocak 1990'da Suriye'nin Düşürdüğü Türk Uçağı, http://yaplaone.blogspot.cz/2015/03/ocak-1990da-suriyenin-dusurdugu-turk.html.
