Banja Luka incident
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The Banja Luka incident, on 28 February 1994, was an incident in which six Republika Srpska Air Force J-21 Jastreb single-seat light attack jets were engaged, and four of them shot down, by NATO warplanes from the United States Air Force. U.S. F-16 fighters southwest of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina successfully engaged and destroyed several Bosnian Serb warplanes which had attacked a Bosnian factory, while suffering no casualties of their own. It marked the first active combat action, air-to-air or otherwise, in NATO's history.[5]
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Part of the Bosnian War and Operation Deny Flight | |||||||
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Republika Srpska | |||||||
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6 J-21 Jastrebs 2 J-22 Oraos | 4+ F-16s | ||||||
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4 aircraft shot down[1][lower-alpha 1] 1 aircraft crashed[3][4] 3 pilots killed 1 wounded | None |
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