American F16 Pilot shootsdown THREE Serbian Jets

The Banja Luka incident, on 28 February 1994, was an incident in which six Republika Srpska Air Force J-21 Jastreb single-seat light attack jets were engaged, and four of them shot down, by NATO warplanes from the United States Air Force. U.S. F-16 fighters southwest of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina successfully engaged and destroyed several Bosnian Serb warplanes which had attacked a Bosnian factory, while suffering no casualties of their own. It marked the first active combat action, air-to-air or otherwise, in NATO's history. The Bosnian Serb Jastrebs headed northwards, back to their base. At 6:45 a.m., the NATO fighters engaged their opponents. Captain Robert G. Wright fired an AIM-120 AMRAAM, downing the first Jastreb which was flying at 1,500 metres (4,900 ft). The remaining Jastrebs dropped to a few hundred metres, flying at low level to use the mountainous terrain to hide from radar and make their escape back to Udbina. Wright pressed on, closing to within AIM-9 Sidewinder range. He engaged two aircraft with heat-seeking Sidewinder missiles, shooting them both down.

After he had expended all his missiles and low on fuel, Wright handed over the chase to his wingman, Capt. Scott O'Grady, who had been flying 'top cover' above his flight leader. O'Grady dropped down to engage and fired an AIM-9M; the missile locked on and near explosion of the warhead triggered by the proximity fuse severely damaged the tail of the targeted Jastreb. Black flight was now approaching "bingo fuel", the point at which a plane will not have enough fuel to return, so they pulled off to refuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker circling in orbit over the Adriatic.

At the same time the other pair of F-16Cs, "Knight 25" and "Knight 26",had been vectored to the area by the AWACS. At 6:50 a.m., "Knight 25", piloted by Capt. Steve "Yogi" Allen, managed to get in behind a single Jastreb flying at a very low altitude. He launched a Sidewinder, downing another J-21 Jastreb. Knight 25 flight turned back hard to the south, where Knight 26, Col. John "Jace" Meyer, established radar lock on another aircraft fleeing to the northwest. After a minute of pursuit, radar contact was lost and the flight broke off the attack. Low on fuel, Knight 25 and 26 returned to the tanker over the Adriatic. After refueling, they resumed combat air patrol over Bosnia. One remaining Serb aircraft was able to land as it ran out of fuel at Udbina Air Base in the Serbian Krajina in present-day Croatia.
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The USAF credited three kills to Captain Robert Gordon "Wilbur" Wright,flying F-16C-40 using an AIM-120 AMRAAM and two AIM-9 Sidewinders; and one kill using an AIM-9 Sidewinder to Captain Stephen L. "Yogi" Allen flying F-16C-40 of the same unit. The Bosnian Serbs acknowledged the loss of five aircraft in the incident; the discrepancy probably stems from the fact that an additional aircraft crashed after being hit by a missile explosion while trying to escape in low-level flight.

[Damocles]

Let me just double check your math here...1... then 2 more, so

Yes, that's what i got as well

[МИЛОШ-чи]

J21 was an trainer jet but they used it for ground strikes cause bosnia doesnt have any air defences
So its logically not that hard to take down

[pgr]

F-16 v J-21 is like a bald eagle versus a duck

[Savage_Viking]

He got more kills than the entire US NAVY.

[warstorieseu]

J-21 is a single seat light attack aircraft, I made a mistake.

[tatavanja]

i love how nobody makes shorts on theme that Serbia shot down F-117 stealth fightet.

[chappie__]

So a country betrayed an agreement and sent 3 pilots to their deaths for no reason

[EvilSarma]

In retaliation, Serbian army shot down super stealth 117-A

[johnkersey]

If Capt. J was the last pic he's was flying the A-10 not a F-16.

[michaelpettersson]

If you are in a Mig 21 and are opposed by F16's and offered a chance to withdraw, you take it.

[musqul]

I am here for the salty Serbian comments.

[arefkr]

I just Googled Banja Luka. It seems very beautiful. I now want to visit it.

[DIABULUSKIRA]

And NATO never got responsible and payed for war crimes and for going into war without UN permission.

[idemopickice]

I love how there’s no serbs in the comments when facts are displayed

[mrawesomeDK]

Serbs still pissed about getting their genocide interrupted 🤣

[assassinzakral]

Wikipedia
Soko J-21 Jastreb This is the attack Jet the narrator is talking about, even noted in the operational history on this page.

[XianPhu]

Bosnia had no NATO involvement.
The entire mission was UN.

[damirkomljen]

no fly zone was declared by a county 10.000km away?

[masterpah]

I was on the ground below when this was happening!!!

[badgerman]

Bro didn't shoot them down he just pressed a button 😂