the royal yugoslav army air force ( unk ) had only 77 modern fighter aircraft available to defend Defending belgrade against the hundreds of german fighters and bombers that struck Attack in the first wave early on 6 april .

Israeli government is convinced Coming_to_believe that Iran is interested in creating Creating territorial contiguity from Iran to the Mediterranean and in transferring Military_operation military forces – including naval vessels , fighter planes and thousands of troops – to permanent bases in Syria and is trying to `` Lebanonize '' Syria and take over Military_operation using Using Shi'ite militias , as it had done with Hezbollah in Lebanon .

Israel denied Syria 's claim Statement that one jet fighter was shot down Use_firearm and another damaged Damaging .

on 3 march 1942 , unk , a douglas unk airliner operated by unk , was shot down Use_firearm over western australia by imperial japanese navy air service Supply fighter aircraft , resulting in Causation the deaths Death of four passengers and the loss Earnings_and_losses of diamonds worth an estimated unk ( the equivalent of a $ unk million in 2010 ) .

In May 2013 , Ibragim Todashev , a 27-year-old Chechen native and former mixed martial arts fighter who knew Coming_to_believe Tamerlan Tsarnaev , was shot Bodily_harm and killed Killing in Orlando , Florida , by law enforcement officers who had been interviewing Communication him about the Waltham murders Killing as well as the Boston Marathon bombings Terrorism .

Along with the battlefield reverses was the inability of the `` Luftwaffe '' to produce Creating enough experienced night fighter crews which was exacerbated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by the crippling shortage of fuel at this stage in the war which contributed Causation to the collapse of training programs and grounded combat units .

Equally serious was the threat posed by RAF de Havilland Mosquito night fighter intruders operating Using over Germany .

In a desperate attempt to improve Cause_to_make_progress the situation and hamper Hindering British operations , a number of experienced night fighter commanders and pilots suggested Convincing restarting intruder operations over England .

The Alraigo Incident Catastrophe occurred Coming_to_be on 7 June 1983 , when a lost British Royal Navy Sea Harrier fighter aircraft landed Arriving on the deck of a Spanish container ship .

In a nighttime raid Attack , under the cover Hiding_objects of darkness and with distraction by a P-61 Black Widow night fighter , the group surprised the Japanese forces in and around the camp .

The student said Statement that insurgent fighters just outside Aleppo who apparently were armed Connect with a heat-seeking missile fired Use_firearm it at a MIG fighter , and that the pilot dropped Self_motion a heat balloon as an evasive tactic , and that the missile followed Self_motion the balloon and then exploded Use_firearm adjacent to the university dormitories .

U.S. jet fighter aircraft followed Motion the plane until it reached Arriving Cuban airspace .

on 7 june 1981 , a flight of israeli air force f-16a fighter aircraft , with an escort of unk , bombed Attack and heavily damaged Damaging the `` osirak '' reactor .

The war Hostile_encounter between the government and Kīngitanga Māori spread Dispersal to other areas of the North Island , with the biggest single campaign Social_event being the invasion Attack of the Waikato in 1863–1864 , before hostilities concluded Process_end with the pursuits of Riwha Tītokowaru in Taranaki ( 1868–1869 ) and guerrilla fighter Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki on the east coast ( 1868–1872 ) .

according to the united states government , the crew of uss `` vincennes '' had incorrectly identified Check the airbus as an attacking Attack f-14 tomcat , a u.s.-made jet fighter that had been part of the iranian air force inventory since the 1970s .

command Control of the german air service ( ) was centralised Cause_to_amalgamate and the new ( german air force ) was able to challenge Competition anglo-french air superiority with the reinforcements and new , superior , fighter aircraft .

it is produced Manufacturing by a joint Collaboration venture of the atlantic city chamber of commerce , the new jersey air national guard 's 177th fighter wing , the borgata hotel casino & spa , david schultz airshows , `` the press of atlantic city '' and unk .

the uss `` liberty '' incident was an attack on a united states navy technical research ship , , by israeli air force jet fighter aircraft and israeli navy motor torpedo boats , on 8 june 1967 , during the six-day war .

The number of fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft guns assigned Choosing to defensive Defending duties in the home islands was inadequate , and most of these aircraft and guns had difficulty reaching the high altitudes at which B-29s often operated Control .

Fuel shortages Causation , inadequate pilot training , and a lack of coordination Collaboration between units also constrained Hindering the effectiveness of the fighter force .

the second schweinfurt raid Attack was a world war ii air battle that took place Process_start on 14 october 1943 , over nazi germany between forces of the united states 8th air force and german `` luftwaffe '' fighter arm ( `` unk '' ) .

Planners added Cause_to_be_included additional fighter escorts to cover Filling the outward and return legs of the operation and sent Sending the entire force against Schweinfurt alone , instead of splitting the force .

The operation was a failure , there were no Merlin engined P-51 Mustangs available for USAAF fighter squadrons to provide Supply long-range escort until the winter of 1943–44 ) , while the P-47 Thunderbolt was inadequate .

On 1 June 1943 , the Douglas DC-3 serving the flight was attacked Attack by eight German Junkers Ju 88 fighter planes and crashed Catastrophe into the Bay of Biscay , killing Killing all 17 on board .

Two NATO Apache helicopters an AC-130 gunship and two F-15E Eagle fighter jets entered Arriving by varying estimates as little as 200 meters ( 660 ft ) to up to 2.5 kilometres ( 1.6 miles ) , into the Pakistani border area of Salala ( in the Baizai subdivision of Mohmand Agency , FATA ) at 2 a.m. local time .

100 Group targeted Aiming German night fighter operations .

a truck bomb Use_firearm was detonated Attack adjacent to building Building # 131 , an eight-story structure Building housing Building members of the united states air force 's unk wing ( provisional ) , primarily from a deployed Arranging rescue Rescuing squadron and deployed Arranging fighter squadron .

The mission was also known as the `` double-strike mission '' because it entailed two large forces of bombers attacking Attack separate targets in order to disperse Dispersal fighter reaction by the Luftwaffe , and was the first American `` shuttle '' mission , in which all or part of a mission landed at a different field and later bombed Attack another target before returning to its base .

When Schweinfurt was finally attacked Attack again two months later , the lack of long-range fighter escort had still not been addressed Resolve_problem and losses were even higher .

airstrikes Attack were launched Process_start by f-16 fighter jets taking off Departing from UNK and unk air base on 24 july and 25 july .

It was reported Reporting that 35 ISIL militants had been killed Killing in the first wave after footage from the fighter jets and unmanned aircraft were analysed , while the airstrikes Attack in Northern Iraq were confirmed Check to have killed Killing a high-ranking PKK militant and were alleged Statement to have killed Killing the PKK commander Murat Karayılan .

the attack Attack was carried out Attack by israeli air force f4 phantom ii fighter bombers , at 9:20 am on wednesday april 8 .

stung by that devastating Destroying defeat , the north vietnamese air force grounded their fighter force several times between june and august 1967 , in order to work on their training and tactics .

In 1973 a Boeing 727-200 that was serving Assistance this flight was shot down Use_firearm by Israeli fighter jets .

It entered Arriving airspace over the Sinai Peninsula ( then occupied by Israel ) , where it was intercepted by two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs , and was shot down Use_firearm after several attempts from the Israeli fighter pilots to make Action the Libyan aircraft land .

Isoroku Yamamoto , commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy , was killed Killing on Bougainville Island when his transport bomber aircraft was shot down Use_firearm by United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft operating Being_in_operation from Kukum Field on Guadalcanal .

the pilots of two united states air force ( usaf ) f-15 fighter aircraft , operating under the control of a usaf airborne warning and control system ( awacs ) aircraft , misidentified Check two united states army uh-60 black hawk helicopters as iraqi mil mi-24 `` hind '' helicopters .

the `` luftwaffe '' fighter force defended Defending the airspace of german-occupied territory against attack Attack , first by raf bomber command Causation and then against the united states army air forces ( usaaf ) .

However , the USAAF introduced Choosing the P-51 Mustang , a fighter capable of escorting Patrolling the USAAF bombers to and from their targets Aiming in daylight .

with new fighter tactics , the eighth air force gained Getting air supremacy over nazi germany by the spring of 1944 against the `` luftwaffe '' .

`` 3 free french sas paratroopers , 1 woman ( janine boitard ) and 1 resistance fighter against 2 german soldiers on the railroad near the bridge before the explosion '' .