This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II. An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often resulting in severe injury or death of the occupants on board. This list does not cover aircraft destroyed during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, or Operation Desert Storm.

Military aircraft

Cold War (1945–1991)

Indonesian National Revolution (1945–1949)

Greek Civil War (1946-1949)

10 May 1948 - A North American T-6 Texan from the Royal Hellenic Air Force Shot down by ground fire over Grevena Province. Both crew killed.

Internal conflict in Myanmar (1948–present)

First Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949)

Insurgency in Balochistan (1948–present)

Darul Islam rebellion (1949–1962)

Taiwan Straits Conflicts (1950–1967)

Bombing of Plaza de Mayo (1955)

Suez Crisis (1956)

Permesta rebellion (1958–1961)

Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)

West New Guinea dispute (1961–1962)

Colombian conflict (1964–present)

Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation (1963–1966)

Aden Emergency (1963–1967)

South African Border War (1966–1990)

Naxalite-Maoist insurgency (1967–present)

The helicopter was later repaired and flown back to base

Football War (1969)

The Troubles (Late 1960s–1998)

Yom Kippur War (1973)

Cyprus Conflict (1963–1974)

Western Sahara War (1975–1991)

Cabinda War (1975–present)

Mozambican Civil War (1977–1994)

Ogaden War (1977–1978)

Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)

Chadian-Libyan conflict (1978–1987)

Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989)

Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992)

Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)

Falklands War (1982)

Libyan Gulf of Sidra territorial water dispute

Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009)

Lord's Resistance Army insurgency (1987–present)

First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994)

Later Nagorno-Karabakh conflict 1994–2024

Gulf War (1990–1991)

Iraqi no-fly zones (1991–2003)

Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)

First Abkhazia War (1992–93)

Bosnian War (1992–1995)

United Nations Operation in Somalia (1992–1995)

Venezuelan coup d'état attempt (November 1992)

Aegean dispute

Insurgency in Ogaden (1994–2018)

Cenepa War (1995)

Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998–2000)

NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (1999)

India–Pakistan military confrontation (1992, 1996, 1999 and 2019)

Second Chechen War (1999–2009)

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

Iraq War (2003–2011)

Kivu conflict (2004–present)

Chadian Civil War (2005–2010)

2006 Lebanon War

Mexican drug war (2006–present)

Russo-Georgian War (2008)

Boko Haram insurgency (2009–present)

Syrian Civil War (2011–present)

First Libyan Civil War (2011)

Nigerian bandit conflict (2011–present)

Central African Republic Civil War (2012–present)

Second Libyan Civil War (2014–2020)

War in Donbas (2014–present)

Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen (2015–present)

Insurgency in Northern Chad (2016–present)

Insurgency in Cabo Delgado (2017–present)

Persian Gulf crisis (2019–present)

Tigray War (2020–2022)

Republican insurgency in Afghanistan (2021–present)

Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022–present)

2023 Chinese balloon incident

On February 4, 2023, at 2:39 p.m. EST an F-22 Raptor, with Pilot Frank 01, fired an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile at a military spy balloon belonging to China that had traversed North America over the previous several days. The balloon was brought down six nautical miles off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. US officials called the craft an "intelligence gathering" balloon, while Chinese authorities claimed it was a weather research device. (This is the first confirmed time since WWII that the United States has taken down a foreign military asset over US territory).

Israel–Hamas war

Civilian aircraft

List of airliner shootdown incidents – dealing with civilian airliners

Indonesian National Revolution (1945–1949)

Colombian Civil War (1964–present)

Corsican conflict (1976–present)

Militias–Comando Vermelho conflict (2006–present)

Nigerian bandit conflict (2011-present)

Somali Civil War (1991–present)

Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009)

Ukraine-Russia War (2014–present)