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				Re: Soviet air force losses 1941-1945
			 
			 
			
		
		
		1. Combat loss in VVS(PVO) means: 
a) shot down in aircombat 
b) shot down by AAA 
c) damaged destroyed at airfield 
c) did not return from sortie! 
 
2. Other loss means: 
a) Accidents/Training 
b) Weared 
 
Note: Especially fighters had many train-versions (i. e. LA-5UTI) which mostly were of course non-combat losses, if so.  
 
In 12/1944 "Fremde Heere Ost" calculated the soviet airlosses. Heer and  Luftwaffe (=flying units and AAA) claimed 70.256 Airkills! "Fremde Heere Ost" even "guessed" 113.744... . These caluclations are without the claims of the german allies.  
 
ZAMO gives for 1944 and only VVS (not PVO and so on) following figures: 
Shot down in Aircombat: 645 
Shot down by AAA: 1049 
Did not return from Sortie: 6612!  
 
Non Combat: ~11.000 
 
There is of course a high propability, that most "Did not return from Sortie" airplanes, were indeed shot down by Germans anyway, let's guess two third, would made ~ 7000 kills for the Germans in 1944. IIRC alone german fighters claimed ~9000 kills.  
For the observation of German fighter kills are following examples interesting: 
IL-2: 
Shot down in Aircombat: 107 
 Shot down by AAA:  583 
Fighters: 
Shot down in Aircombat: 508 
 Shot down by AAA: 376 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
			
			
			
				 
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
			
			
			
		 
	
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