Every war the Congolese Air Force has fought
The civil war of 1997–1999 is the air force’s only war in the sources checked. Government helicopters bombed areas held by Denis Sassou Nguesso’s Cobra militia, flown at least in part by Ukrainian mercenaries according to Wikipedia; the ICIJ described many of the civilians killed as "victims of indiscriminate bombardment from helicopters", and the positions of the two camps on the bombing were not found. Wikipedia’s infobox gives 13,929–25,050 deaths for the whole war without naming who made the estimate. Where a consolidated sortie or loss figure exists in the official record it is given here; where accounts disagree, the range is shown and the disagreement named. Blank cells are blank because no figure could be verified, not because the fighting was small.
The civil war of 1997–1999 for Brazzaville.
| صراع | سنين | ضد | الطائرة الرئيسية | طلعات جوية | طائرة مفقودة | |
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| Republic of the Congo Civil Warthe 1997 war for BrazzavilleCongolese Air Force and contracted crews, for the government of President Pascal Lissouba | 1997–1999 | Cobra militia and Angola | Mi-8, Attack helicopters | |||
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Government helicopters, flown at least in part by Ukrainian mercenaries according to Wikipedia, bombed areas held by Denis Sassou Nguesso’s Cobra militia. The war began in Brazzaville on 5 June 1997, when fighting broke out between government forces and Sassou Nguesso’s Cobra militia. Lissouba’s government had already approved, on 1 June, an invoice for four Puma SA 330L helicopters from a Johannesburg broker; the ICIJ later established that they were never delivered. Six Mi-8 helicopters did arrive from Ukraine in mid-1997, according to Wikipedia, which also says the government recruited Ukrainian mercenaries to fly attack helicopters and used them in a bombing campaign of Cobra-held areas. The ICIJ described many of the thousands of civilians killed as "victims of indiscriminate bombardment from helicopters". The air war turned against the government in October: on 11–12 October 1997 Angolan air force fighters struck Lissouba’s Cocoye militia inside Brazzaville, and on 16 October the Cobras, supported by tanks and about 1,000 Angolan troops, took the capital, as the New York Times reported at the time (cited by Wikipedia). The conflict formally ended on 29 December 1999. حصيلة Sassou Nguesso’s forces, with Angolan support, took Brazzaville on 16 October 1997; the conflict formally ended on 29 December 1999. The air force never recovered. The types and numbers of helicopters used, the identity of the crews and the number of sorties are not documented in an official source; the mercenary account rests on Wikipedia. Wikipedia says Lissouba approved the purchase of 28 South African Pumas; the ICIJ’s documents show four, never delivered. The positions of the Lissouba and Sassou Nguesso camps on the bombing were not found in the sources checked.
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- ICIJ: Offshore documents solve mystery of pre-civil war helicopter deal in Congo, Stefaans Brümmer and Craig McKune, 5 April 2013Four Puma SA 330Ls invoiced 1 June 1997, never delivered; civilian victims of helicopter bombardment.
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