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Old 16th September 2010, 13:53
Gizmo Gizmo is offline
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Re: F-86 vs MiG 15, the claims...

Daniel,
As I know at last months of the war KPAFAC had three MIGs regiments, two of them over PLAAF command. In my opinion there is possible that most victims of 30 June clashes were from regiment that is simply not counted in PLAAF statistics. KPAFAC were poorly trained, so very heavy losses in one combat are highly possible. BTW Seidov claimed that on 30 June VVS suffered only one lose - a MiG from 224 IAP, pilot bailed out.

Here are PLAAF MIGs losses at last months of the war (according to Seidov book)
November 52 - 7 destroyed and 4 damaged, 2 pilots KIA
December 52 - 6 destroyed, 12 damaged (according to "Red Wings over Yalu" by Xiaoming Zhang 12 destroyed)
January 53 - 12 MiGs destroyed 4 pilots KIA, 1 Tu-2 destroyed
February 53 - 7 destroyed, 10 damaged, 5 KIA
March 53 - 13 destroyed, 11 damaged
April 53 - 15 destroyed, 3 pilots KIA
May 53 - 27 destroyed, 10 pilots KIA
June 53 - 11 destroyed, 7 pilots KIA
July 53 - 17 destroyed, 9 pilots KIA

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