Post WW2 air to air combat loses

Can you name every country or group that has had an air-to-air combat loss since World War 2?

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Conflict	Loses	Country
Incursions into Yugoslav airspace	2	United States
Indonesian National Revolution	2	India
Arab-Israeli War	7 (Western Claim) 0-1 (Country's Claim)	Israel
	15	Egypt
	2	Syria
Korean War	339 (Country's Claim)	China
	335 (Country's Claim)	Soviet Union
	270 (US Claim)	North Korea
	139 (Country's Claim) 1,200 (USSR Claim) 85 (PRC Claim)	United States
	139 (UN Claim) 197 (USSR Claim)	UN Coalition Aircraft
	135	South Korea
Incursions into Soviet airspace	16	United States
Incursions into Soviet airspace	3	Soviet Union
Catalina affair	2	Sweden
Avro Lincoln shoot down incident	1	United Kingdom
Air battle over Merklín	1	United States
Bombing of Plaza de Mayo	1	Argentina
Suez Crisis	7-9	Egypt
	1	Israel
	1	United Kingdom
Secret electronic survellance missions	2	United States
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis	32 (ROC Claim) 5 (Country's Claim)	China
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis	14 (PRC Claim) 3 (Country's Claim)	Taiwan
Canberra incident	1	India
Vietnam War	131 (Country's Claim) 195 (US Claim)	North Vietnam
	128 (Country's Claim) 266 (North Vietnam Claim)	United States
	72	South Vietnam
Incursion into Burma airspace	1	China
First Iraqi-Kurdish War	2	Iraq
Dutch-Indonesian Conflict	1	Indonesia
Project Dark Gene	1	Soviet Union
Project Dark Gene	6	Iran
Six Day War	12 (Country's Claim) 20 (ACIG Claim)	Israel
	64-72	Egypt
		Syria
		Jordan
Indo-Pakisani Air War of 1965	60-75	India
Indo-Pakisani Air War of 1965	20	Pakistan
War of Attrition	60 (Country's Claim) 113 (Israeli Claim)	Egypt
War of Attrition	4 (Country's Claim)	Israel
Football War	3	El Salvador
Indo-Pakisani War of 1971	45	India
Indo-Pakisani War of 1971	75	Pakistan
Turkish invasion of Cyprus	1 (Greek Claim)	Turkey
Yom Kippur War	5 (Country's Claim)	Israel
	277 (Israeli Claim)	Egypt
	277 (Israeli Claim)	Syria
Libyan-Egyptian War	4-5	Libya
Libyan-Egyptian War	1	Egypt
Iranian and Soviet airspace incursions	2+3	Iran
Iranian and Soviet airspace incursions	1	Soviet Union
Soviet-Afghan War	8	Afganistan
	1	Pakistan
	2	Iran
	4	Mojahedin

Conflict	Loses	Country
Nicaraguan Revolution	2	Nicaragua
Iran-Iraq War	234	Iraq
	73	Iran
	3 (Iranian Claim) 0 (Country's Claim)	Soviet Union
	3	Syria
	1	Algeria
	1	Turkey
South African Border War	1	South Africa
South African Border War	2	Angola
US Freedom of Navigation operations (1980-1989)	4	Libya
Salvadoran Civil War	1	FMLN supply aircraft
Falklands War	23	Argentina
Falklands War	1	United Kingdom
1982 Lebanon War	82-86 (Israeli Claim)	Syria
1982 Lebanon War	1 (Country's Claim) 42 (Syrian Claim) 3 (ACIG Claim)	Israel
Sri Lankan Civil War	1	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Tanker War	1 (Country's Claim) 2 (Saudi Claim)	Iran
Persian Gulf War	4 (Country's Claim) 12 (Iraqi Claim)	United States
	1 (Iraqi Claim)	United Kingdom
	1 (Iraqi Claim)	Italy
	1 (Iraqi Claim)	Saudi Arabia
	23 (Country's Claim) 44 (Coalition Claim)	Iraq
Iraqi no-fly zones enforcement	3	United States
Iraqi no-fly zones enforcement	5	Iraq
Croatian War of Independence	1	Italy
1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempts	3	Bolivia
Operation Deny Flight	5	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cenepa War	1 (Confirmed) 2 (Country's Claim)	Ecuador
Aegean dispute	1	Turkey
Eritrean-Ethiopian War	2-6	Eritrea
Eritrean-Ethiopian War	Up to 7	Ethiopia
Operation Allied Force	5 + 1	Yugoslavia
Operation Allied Force	1 + 1	NATO
Atlantique incident	1	Pakistan
2001-02 India-Pakistan standoff	1	India
Iran-Israel proxy conflict	2	Hezbollah
2008 Georgian spy plane shootdowns	1	Georgia
Iraq War	1	Iran
War in Afghanistan	1	United States
Syrian Civil War	7	Syria
	2	Russia
	3	"Pro-Syria regime" forces
Iran-Israel proxy conflict	1	Iran
War in Donbass	1 (Country's Claim)	Ukraine
Second Libyan Civil War	1	Turkey
Second Yemeni Civil War	4 (Arab Coalition Claim)	Houthis
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempts	2	Turkey
Balochistan Conflict	1	Iran
2019 India-Pakistan standoff	1 (Confirmed) 2 (Pakistani Claim)	India
2019 India-Pakistan standoff	1 (Indian Claim)	Pakistan
2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War	1 (Country's Claim)	Armenia
2021 Israel-Palestine conflict	1	Hamas
2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine	12 (as of 8/4/23)	Ukraine
2022 Russian Invasion of Ukaine	1	United States

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