Kosovo air war questions

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Does anybody know anything about NATO losses in this air campaign ?
Has anything new emerged about NATO losses (I think about the photo with
supposedly coffins of US dead in Macedonia published in Greek newspaper )?
Some people said that there were more losses than NATO actually admitted,
now in 2005 has anybody got any new info ?(I'm not anti-NATO just seeking the truth)

PS:Why officially 28 planes were shot down in Iraq(with a poorly trained Iraqi army )and only 2 in Yugoslavia with a much better trained Yugoslav army ?was it a question of altitude ?

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As far as I know, the only losses were an F-16 and an F-117, both of the USAF.

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yes but this are official losses and in war you know there is a lot of cover up
Korea war casualties that have been underreported with many other planes beign shot down by soviet aces

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yes but this are official losses and in war you know there is a lot of cover up
Korea war casualties that have been underreported with many other planes beign shot down by soviet aces

Oh ok, so there is always cover up. Do you really think it would matter if just 2 aircraft or 10 were lost, considering the extent of the air campaign? Hardly, I would think. Not that I am saying 10 were lost.

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I remember the RAF lost one Harrier after been hit by shoulder-launched SAM, could some update me on this?

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the Harrier was I think lost in a "training accident" but who knows....anybody got a clue ?

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How long will it take for the name "Venik" to pop-up in this thread ? :diablo:

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well 3 hours and 16 minutes it seems :p

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No not Venik ! His posts are nonsense I know but I simply ask cuz I compared the Gulf war and Allied Force and it's strange no ?

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Yeeee-haw:D !
TJ, will you take the honours again?

Kojedub: what 'info' have you got that suggests more than the F-16 and F-117 were downed, and that A-10 had it's engine nacelle badly damaged?

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Nothing but I've seen a photo with coffins of "apparently" US soldiers being transported somewhere in the Balkans and during the war the respected magazine "defence & foreign affairs "( a us magazine) said that the losses were higher than said.Is it true or is it BS ?And I think many said that losses were heavier were they all lying ?
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Hello !!!!
where are you ???
Is there something new or not ?

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Had there been more NATO loses in the air camaign over FRY in 1999, they should have came out by now. I mean after six years it is hard to keep thing hidden in the global village we live by now.

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I don't know what photos you are talking about (TJ is the ultimate debunker of this stuff), but from what lies within my grasp of fact-checking, the official lists are perfectly reliable.

And thanks for the kind and patient words, as well as your well-defined references to larger NATO losses :rolleyes:

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yes but the photos of coffins ?who was in them and when I compare the Gulf war and Allied Force something is abnormal 28 ( Iraqis poorly trained or at least not as well trained as the Yugoslavs ) and 2 by the Yugoslavs plus 30 or so drones

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Let's put this in easy-to-understand-English: WHAT photos of coffins? Where? When?

And if you don't want to believe the loss rates: fine, don't. But don't expect any of the serious members of this forum to come out and find support for your delusions.

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No you don't understood I'm not anti NATO but I was shocked by the photos an dI started to have some doubts cuz I saw those photos of coffins I can show them to you wait a little bit and go and have

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No you don't understood I'm not anti NATO but I was shocked by the photos an dI started to have some doubts cuz I saw those photos of coffins I can show them to you wait a little bit and go and have a look at my post about the SAS

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The picture of the coffin is hard to find again but I can assure you I saw what appeared to be coffins transported by soldiers and does anybody know what was the truth in the story about the "annual insp" markings on a supposedly Yug shot down mig 29

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The picture of the coffin is hard to find again but I can assure you I saw what appeared to be coffins transported by soldiers and does anybody know what was the truth in the story about the "annual insp" markings on a supposedly Yug shot down mig 29

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Here is the photo with the coffins and do you know what was the cause of the crash of the apache helo in Albania (one accident but the other ?)

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