USAF Losses in Vietnam

USAF Aircraft Losses

Feb. 1, 1962-Oct. 31, 1973

During the ten years between 1962 to 1973, US Air Forces lost over 2,000 aircraft: the majority to Anti Aircraft Artillery.

Communist AAA shot down 1,443 of the total 2.255 aircraft lost by US Air Forces to all causes i.e. almost 64 percent of losses were to AA guns while the much vaunted Surface to Air Missiles shot down only 110 aircraft ( a mere 4.8 percent of the total losses).

Year	Ground Fire	Ground attack on airbase	SAM	Air Combat	Other combat	Operational	Total
1962-66	298	21	9	4	–	125	457
1967	276	6	26	11	–	77	401
1968	275	45	19	22	10	91	462
1969	234	14	–	–	1	77	326
1970	177	3	–	1	–	76	256
1971	73	1	2	–	–	27	103
1972	72	2	24	14	1	19	132
1973	38	4	30	10	9	25	116
1974	–	–	–	–	–	1	1
Total	1443	96	110	67	21	518	2255