How Were Most US Fixed Wing Aircraft Lost in Vietnam?

[Sayeret]

Does anyone know? I heard from one person that most were shot down by small arms fire.

[sergey31]

1.AAA
2.SAM
3.Other (including shot down by NV Migs)

[Griffin704]

Check out some of the US Army Fixed Wing crashes in Vietnam involving deaths. Synopsis is included if the cause was known.

http://www.armyaircrews.com/fixed_nam.html

[Oddball]

US Navy Losses
AAA 345
SAM 91
MiG 15
Other 79

37/57mm AAA probably shot down more aircraft than small arms fire.

[Pooga]

Shooting down a F-105 going 400 kts with an AK is quite a challenging feat.

[Sayeret]

Shooting down a F-105 going 400 kts with an AK is quite a challenging feat.

Indeed, however often when the Vietcog were attacked by American aircraft they would focus all their weapons towards one aircraft.

[Jedburgh]

US Navy and USMC Aircraft Losses Vietnam War 1962 - 73 (http://orbat.com/site/history/historical/usa/usnlossesvietnam.html)

US Air-to-Air Losses in the Vietnam War (http://home.sprynet.com/~anneled/usloss.html)

[Kilgor]

Shooting down a F-105 going 400 kts with an AK is quite a challenging feat.

when you have hundreds of guys all trying to do the same thing, they sometimes got lucky