Todas las guerras en las que ha luchado la Aviación Naval de los Estados Unidos
Vietnam was the costliest war naval aviation fought after 1945: 532 aircraft lost in combat and 329 to operational causes, and 401 aviators killed, by Hobson’s count as given by Wikipedia. The Second World War figures rest on Wikipedia and were not checked against the Naval History and Heritage Command. In the Red Sea campaign Truman lost three Super Hornets, none to enemy action. In 2026 Navy aircraft supported the raid that seized President Maduro of Venezuela and flew in Operation Epic Fury against Iran; Washington says Iran accepted a ceasefire on 7 April 2026, a naval blockade followed, and in August 2026 USNI News described the conflict as continuing. No Navy aircraft loss in Epic Fury was confirmed in the sources checked. 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.
From the Veracruz landing in 1914 to Operation Epic Fury against Iran in 2026.
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| La ocupación de Veracruzlos primeros vuelos operativosAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 1914 | México | Curtiss floatplanes and flying boats | 0 | ||
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Flew reconnaissance for the troops ashore from the battleship Mississippi and the cruiser Birmingham. Three months after naval aviation moved to Pensacola, the Navy sent what it had to Mexico. From 24 April 1914 five floatplanes and flying boats, flown by ten aviators, operated from Mississippi and Birmingham off Veracruz and Tampico, scouting for the sailors and Marines who had landed. It was the first time American naval aircraft were used on an operation, and it showed both the promise and the limits of the early machines: they could see over the horizon, but they could carry nothing and stay up only briefly. Resultado The occupation of Veracruz lasted until November 1914; the aviators’ work was limited to scouting. |
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| La Primera Guerra Mundialpatrols, bombing and one aceAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 1917–1918 | Alemania | Sopwith Camel (with the RAF), Curtiss flying boats | |||
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Trained naval aviators in large numbers, flew anti-submarine patrols, and attached pilots to British and French units. When the United States entered the war in April 1917, Pensacola had 38 aviators on hand; by the armistice it had trained about a thousand, and the station alone had 438 officers and 5,538 enlisted men. David Ingalls, who came from the First Yale Unit, Naval Aviator No. 85, flew Sopwith Camels with No. 213 Squadron of the Royal Air Force and was credited with six victories, the Navy’s only ace of the war; his last combat mission was on 3 October 1918. Resultado Naval aviation ended the war vastly larger than it began it. Overall aircraft and personnel figures for naval aviation in Europe were not confirmed in the sources checked. |
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| La Segunda Guerra Mundialthe carrier warAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 1941–1945 | Japan and Germany | Grumman F4F Wildcat, Grumman F6F Hellcat, Vought F4U Corsairy 5 más | |||
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Fought the Pacific war at sea with fast carrier task forces, and hunted submarines and escorted convoys with patrol aircraft. The first carrier, Langley, was scuttled on 27 February 1942 after Japanese bombers caught her ferrying fighters to Java. Four months later the Navy’s carriers turned the war at Midway. On 4 June 1942 Torpedo Squadron 8 lost all 15 Devastators without a hit, and only Ensign George Gay of its 30 aircrew survived, but from 10:22 Navy dive bombers wrecked Akagi, Kaga and Sōryū within minutes and Hiryū later that day. Japan lost four carriers, 248 aircraft and 3,057 men. By 1944 the Hellcat had arrived in numbers: in the Philippine Sea on 19–20 June, 15 carriers with about 900 aircraft destroyed 550–645 Japanese aircraft for 123 of their own, an action a Lexington pilot compared to "an old-time turkey shoot". Avengers helped sink the battleships Musashi and Yamato. The price included 45 Helldivers that ran out of fuel returning from the long-range strike of 20 June 1944. Resultado Japan surrendered on 2 September 1945; the carrier had replaced the battleship as the centre of the fleet. Hellcat victory claims are given as both 5,163 and 5,223 in Wikipedia’s article. Japanese aircraft losses in the Philippine Sea are a range (550–645). All figures here are from Wikipedia and were not checked against the Naval History and Heritage Command, whose site could not be reached.
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| La guerra de CoreaTask Force 77Aviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 1950–1953 | Corea del Norte, China y la Unión Soviética | Grumman F9F Panther, Vought F4U Corsair, Douglas AD Skyraider | |||
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Flew interdiction, close support and fighter cover from carriers off both coasts. Seventeen US carriers served in United Nations carrier operations. The first strike came from Valley Forge on 3 July 1950, against Pyongyang airfield, and Lt. (jg) Leonard Plog of VF-51 shot down a Yak-9 for the Navy’s first victory of the war — also the first combat strike by jets. On 2 May 1951 Skyraiders made the war’s only aerial torpedo attack, on the Hwacheon Dam. On 18 November 1952 Lt. Royce Williams, flying a Panther from Oriskany, fought seven Soviet-flown MiG-15s for 35 minutes and was credited with four before nursing his damaged jet back to the ship. The Blue Angels were disbanded in November 1950 and their pilots sent to the carrier Princeton. Resultado Armistice signed in July 1953. Soviet involvement in the Williams fight was kept secret for decades; the four-kill credit is as given by Wikipedia. Navy loss totals for Korea were not confirmed.
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| La guerra de VietnamYankee StationAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 1964–1973 | Vietnam del Norte | McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, Vought F-8 Crusader, Douglas A-4 Skyhawky 4 más | 861 | ||
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Struck North Vietnam from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin for nine years and fought the North Vietnamese air force. Navy Skyhawks flew some of the first American strikes of the war in Operation Pierce Arrow in 1964, and 21 of the Navy’s 23 operational carriers served with Task Force 77. It was the costliest war naval aviation fought after 1945: 861 aircraft and 401 aviators killed. The air-to-air record was poor at first, and Captain Frank Ault’s 1968 report into missile failures led to the Navy Fighter Weapons School — Top Gun — at Miramar on 3 March 1969. Wikipedia credits it with lifting the Navy’s kill-to-loss ratio against MiGs from 2.42:1 to 12.5:1. Navy Phantoms scored 40 victories, Crusaders 19 for three losses, and even Skyraiders shot down two MiG-17s with cannon. In 1972 Lt. Randy Cunningham and Lt. (jg) William Driscoll of VF-96 shot down three MiGs in one flight to become the Navy’s only aces of the war. On 14 January 1969 a fire on Enterprise killed 27 sailors and destroyed 15 aircraft. Resultado US combat involvement ended with the Paris agreements of January 1973. Phantom combat losses are given as 73 in the F-4 article and 75 in the Vietnam losses article. The kill ratios are as given by Wikipedia; North Vietnamese figures differ and were not checked.
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| Libya: the Gulf of Sidra, El Dorado Canyon and Tobrukthe Line of DeathAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 1981–1989 | Libia | Grumman F-14A Tomcat, Grumman A-6E Intruder, LTV A-7E Corsair IIy 2 más | 0 | ||
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Challenged Libya’s claim to the Gulf of Sidra, shot down four Libyan fighters in two engagements and struck Benghazi in 1986. Libya claimed the whole Gulf of Sidra as territorial water behind a line at 32° 30′ N. On 19 August 1981 two F-14As of VF-41 from Nimitz shot down two Libyan Su-22M3s with AIM-9L Sidewinders; Wikipedia reports that both Libyan pilots ejected. On 15 April 1986, in Operation El Dorado Canyon, America’s A-6Es struck targets in Benghazi and Coral Sea’s Intruders hit Benina airfield, destroying three or four MiGs, two Mi-8s and a Fokker F27, while Coral Sea’s Hornets flew their first combat missions on air defence suppression. On 4 January 1989 two F-14As of VF-32 from John F. Kennedy shot down two MiG-23MLs about 40 miles north of Tobruk. The United States called it self-defence after repeated head-on approaches; Libya said two unarmed reconnaissance aircraft on a routine mission over international waters had been attacked, and asked for an emergency UN session. Resultado Libya continued to dispute the US position; the confrontations ended after 1989. Libya’s casualty figures for 1986 (about 40 reported, per Wikipedia) were not confirmed against Libyan sources.
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| Operation Praying Mantisthe tanker warAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 1988 | Irán | Grumman A-6E Intruder | |||
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Attacked Iranian warships after the frigate Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine. After the frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts struck an Iranian mine on 14 April 1988, the Navy retaliated. Aircraft of Enterprise’s Carrier Air Wing 11 bombed two Iranian frigates, helping to sink one and damaging the other. Resultado One Iranian frigate sunk and another damaged by Enterprise’s air wing, per Wikipedia.
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| Operación Tormenta del Desiertosix carriersAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 1991 | Irak | Grumman F-14A/A+ Tomcat, McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A/C Hornet, Grumman A-6E Intrudery 3 más | |||
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Flew strike, air defence, electronic warfare and tanker missions from six carriers. Midway and Theodore Roosevelt operated in the Gulf and Ranger, America, John F. Kennedy and Saratoga in the Red Sea; the Navy had more than 400 aircraft in theatre. On the first night, 17 January 1991, Lt. Cdr. Scott Speicher of VFA-81 from Saratoga was shot down; a 2001 CIA assessment said most likely by a missile from an Iraqi MiG-25. His status changed five times until his remains were identified on 2 August 2009. The same day Lt. Cdr. Mark Fox and Lt. Nick Mongilio, in a flight of four Hornets, shot down two MiGs in a brief dogfight. Theodore Roosevelt flew 3,897 sorties and dropped more than 4.8 million pounds of ordnance, the most of any carrier. The A-7 flew its last combat and was retired in May 1991. Resultado Kuwait was liberated; the ground war ended on 28 February 1991. Naval aviation’s share of coalition sorties and its loss total were not confirmed in the sources checked.
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| Bosnia y KosovoDeliberate Force and Allied ForceAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 1995–1999 | Republika Srpska and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Grumman F-14 Tomcat, McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, Grumman EA-6B Prowler | |||
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Struck Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav targets from carriers in the Adriatic. Theodore Roosevelt took part in Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces in 1995 and in 1999 flew two months of strikes over Kosovo and Serbia in Operation Allied Force. These were coalition air campaigns in which naval aviation was a contributor rather than the lead. Resultado The Dayton agreement followed in 1995; Belgrade accepted NATO terms in June 1999. Sortie counts and Navy-specific figures were not confirmed; the USAF page carries the overall Allied Force account.
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| Operación Libertad DuraderaAfganistánAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 2001–2014 | Los talibanes y Al Qaeda | Grumman F-14 Tomcat, Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornety 2 más | |||
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Flew strike and close air support missions over Afghanistan from carriers in the North Arabian Sea. Enterprise flew nearly 700 missions and dropped more than 800,000 pounds of ordnance over Afghanistan in the first three weeks of the campaign in October 2001. Theodore Roosevelt then stayed at sea for 160 consecutive days, a record since the Second World War, and flew more than 3,100 sorties. Carriers in the Arabian Sea remained a main source of air support over Afghanistan for years afterwards. Resultado The Taliban government fell in late 2001; carrier support continued until the combat mission ended. Loss totals and the Navy’s share of sorties were not confirmed; one ordnance figure in Wikipedia’s Theodore Roosevelt article (59,500 pounds) looks wrong and is not used.
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| Operación Libertad Iraquíthe invasion of IraqAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 2003–2011 | Irak | Grumman F-14 Tomcat, Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornety 1 más | |||
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Flew strike and support missions from several carriers in the invasion and in the occupation that followed. Super Hornets had already flown a "response option" strike at Al Kut and Tallil on 6 November 2002, their first combat. Four carriers were on station during the 2003 invasion, and Enterprise relieved them from September 2003. In March 2003 an S-3B hit a target in Basra with a laser-guided Maverick. The F-14’s last combat sortie, a bomb over Iraq, came on 8 February 2006. Resultado Baghdad fell in April 2003; carriers rotated through the Gulf for years after. No consolidated figures were found for naval aviation in Iraq.
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| Operation Odyssey DawnLibya 2011Aviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 2011 | Libia (gobierno de Gadafi) | Boeing EA-18G Growler | 0 | ||
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Provided electronic attack for the coalition’s first strikes against Libyan air defences. The EA-18G Growler, which had made its first operational deployment only weeks earlier, flew its first combat missions enforcing the UN no-fly zone over Libya in March 2011. Resultado The coalition campaign continued under NATO as Operation Unified Protector.
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| Resolución inherente de la operaciónIrak y SiriaAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 2014–2021 | Islamic State and Syria (one engagement) | Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet, Boeing EA-18G Growler | |||
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Struck the Islamic State group from carriers and shot down a Syrian government fighter in 2017. Carrier air wings flew against the Islamic State from 2014; in 2015 Theodore Roosevelt’s wing launched 1,800 sorties and used over a million pounds of ordnance. On 18 June 2017, near Ja’Din south of Tabqah, Lt. Cdr. Michael Tremel of VFA-87 from George H.W. Bush shot down a Syrian Su-22 with an AIM-120 after an AIM-9X missed. The coalition said the jet had bombed Syrian Democratic Forces and was shot down "in collective self-defense of Coalition partnered forces"; the Syrian army said its aircraft was "fulfilling its mission against Daesh". Russia, per USNI News, said it would end airspace deconfliction with the coalition. It was the first American air-to-air kill since 1999. Resultado The Islamic State lost its territory by 2019. The end date is a convention: the coalition combat mission in Iraq ended in December 2021, while operations in Syria continued.
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| The Red Sea campaignProsperity Guardian, Poseidon Archer and Rough RiderAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 2023–2025 | Ansar Allah (el movimiento hutí) | Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II, Boeing EA-18G Growlery 2 más | 3 | ||
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Shot down Houthi drones and missiles over the shipping lanes and struck missile, drone and radar sites in Yemen. For the carrier air wings it was a long and largely defensive fight. Eisenhower’s air wing, deployed from 14 October 2023 to 14 July 2024, fired at least 80 air-to-air missiles and 350 air-to-surface weapons, by the account of its strike group commander, Rear Adm. Marc Miguez; on 26 December 2023 Super Hornets destroyed 12 drones, three anti-ship missiles and two cruise missiles, and on 9 March 2024 at least 28 drones were shot down in four hours. In 2024 the F-35C flew its first combat in strikes on Yemen. Rough Rider, from 15 March to 6 May 2025, was heavier: Truman alone dropped more than 1.1 million pounds of ordnance. Truman’s deployment was also an embarrassment, with three jets lost and a collision with the merchant ship Besiktas-M off Port Said on 12 February 2025, which, with the jet losses, Navy investigations linked to leadership failures, training gaps and faulty equipment. Resultado A ceasefire with the Houthis was announced on 6 May 2025. The shoot-down by USS Gettysburg is dated 21 December (US time) by one USNI article and 22 December (local) by another. Houthi claims of attacks on carriers were not verified and are not reported as fact. The interception counts are those given by US officers.
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| Operación Resolución Absolutathe Venezuela raidAviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 2026 | Venezuela (Maduro government) | Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Boeing EA-18G Growler, Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye | 0 | ||
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Navy strike, electronic attack and early warning aircraft supported the raid that seized President Nicolás Maduro. The raid early on 3 January 2026 followed months in which the Gerald R. Ford strike group with Carrier Air Wing 8 had been in the Caribbean for Operation Southern Spear, the counter-drug campaign. USNI News lists F/A-18s, EA-18G Growlers and E-2s among the roughly 150 aircraft involved, alongside Air Force fighters and bombers and the helicopters of the extraction force. Venezuela’s vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, demanded Maduro’s release; Colombia and Mexico condemned the operation and the UN Secretary-General said the rules of international law had not been respected. Resultado Maduro and his wife were taken into US custody; Venezuela’s vice-president called him "the legitimate leader of Venezuela". Venezuelan casualty figures were not given in the source. Which carrier the Navy aircraft flew from was not confirmed. The Southern Spear boat strikes are not attributed to naval aviation here, since the sources did not say which forces carried them out.
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| Operation Epic Fury and the blockade of Iranla guerra de Irán de 2026Aviación Naval de los Estados Unidos | 2026 | Irán | Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II (Marine Corps), Boeing EA-18G Growlery 2 más | |||
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Struck Iranian targets and naval forces from carriers, then enforced a naval blockade. Epic Fury began at 1:15 a.m. on 28 February 2026. On the first night Marine F-35Cs and Navy Super Hornets launched from Abraham Lincoln in the North Arabian Sea, while the Gerald R. Ford group, which had been sent from the Caribbean, was in the eastern Mediterranean. CENTCOM’s fact sheet lists nuclear-powered carriers, EA-18G Growlers, E-2D Hawkeyes and MH-60 Seahawks among the assets, more than 13,000 targets struck and more than 155 Iranian vessels damaged or destroyed. Ford came home in May 2026 after a record 326-day deployment, and Lincoln passed 300 days at sea. In the blockade that followed, an F/A-18 from Lincoln disabled the tanker Marivex in June 2026; three Indian mariners were killed in a strike on another tanker that week. Resultado Washington says Iran accepted a ceasefire on 7 April 2026; a US naval blockade followed, and in August 2026 USNI News described the conflict as continuing. Iranian loss and casualty claims were not checked. The ceasefire date and the blockade are both reported by US sources; the status of the conflict in late 2026 is described as ongoing by USNI News. The USAF page carries the overall campaign account.
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- Noticias de USNI: El portaaviones Dwight D. Eisenhower regresa a casa tras siete meses de combates con drones y misiles hutíes (20 de julio de 2024)El CVW-3 realizaba entre 80 y 120 salidas diarias; al menos 80 misiles aire-aire y 350 armas aire-superficie (Contralmirante Marc Miguez); al menos 28 drones fueron derribados el 9 de marzo de 2024.
- Noticias de USNI: Las investigaciones revelan fallas detrás de la colisión del portaaviones Harry S. Truman y la pérdida de 3 aviones Super Hornet (4 de diciembre de 2025)El VFA-11 F/A-18F fue derribado por el USS Gettysburg el 22 de diciembre de 2024; el VFA-136 F/A-18E se perdió del hangar el 28 de abril de 2025; el VFA-11 F/A-18F se perdió tras un fallo en el sistema de frenado el 6 de mayo de 2025; colisión con el Besiktas-M el 12 de febrero de 2025.
- Noticias de USNI: El USS Harry S. Truman está de vuelta (1 de junio de 2025)Despliegue de 251 días; Rough Rider del 15 de marzo al 6 de mayo de 2025 con Truman y Carl Vinson; al menos 1.000 ataques; más de 1,1 millones de libras de munición procedentes de Truman.
- Noticias de USNI: El Comando Sur no necesita un portaaviones para la interdicción marítima, según el Jefe de Operaciones Navales (6 de abril de 2026).El portaaviones Ford CSG, junto con el CVW-8, estuvo desplegado en el Caribe durante más de 100 días en la Operación Southern Spear; el Ford acumuló 286 días desplegados hasta el 6 de abril de 2026.
- Noticias de USNI: Maduro y su esposa capturados por las fuerzas estadounidenses (3 de enero de 2026)Operación Resolución Absoluta: alrededor de 150 aeronaves de 20 ubicaciones, incluyendo F/A-18, EA-18G y E-2; una aeronave fue alcanzada pero regresó; reacciones venezolanas e internacionales.
- Noticias de USNI: Estados Unidos e Israel lanzan ataques contra Irán, Teherán responde en toda la región (28 de febrero de 2026)Aviones F-35C de la Infantería de Marina y F/A-18E/F de la Armada lanzaron desde Abraham Lincoln en el norte del Mar Arábigo; Grupo de Ataque de Ford en el Mediterráneo oriental.
- Noticias de USNI: El USS George HW Bush parte para su despliegue, el despliegue del USS Gerald Ford podría extenderse a 11 meses (31 de marzo de 2026)El helicóptero Bush, con el escuadrón CVW-7, partió el 31 de marzo de 2026; el Ford, a los 280 días.
- Noticias de USNI: La Armada planea despliegues prolongados de portaaviones mientras continúa el conflicto con Irán (26 de agosto de 2026)El USS Ford regresó en mayo de 2026 tras un despliegue récord de 326 días; los despliegues de portaaviones desde octubre de 2023 promediaron 8,5 meses; bloqueo naval de Irán; Jefe de Operaciones Navales, Almirante Daryl Caudle.
- Noticias de USNI: Estados Unidos inutiliza 3 buques cisterna como parte del bloqueo iraní (11 de junio de 2026)Un F/A-18 del portaaviones Abraham Lincoln inutilizó el buque cisterna Marivex; tres marineros indios murieron en un ataque contra otro buque cisterna.
- Noticias de USNI: Un avión Super Hornet de la Armada de EE. UU. derriba un avión sirio cerca del bastión del ISIS en Raqqa (18 de junio de 2017)Declaración de la coalición en defensa propia colectiva y declaración del ejército sirio de que la aeronave estaba en una misión contra el ISIS.
- Departamento de Guerra de EE. UU.: La furia épica ha sido sofocada por ahora, los objetivos se han cumplido y las fuerzas estadounidenses permanecen preparadas.Alto el fuego del 7 de abril de 2026 y una duración de 38 días; citado como en la página de la USAF, no se ha vuelto a consultar para este archivo.
- Comando Central de los Estados Unidos: Hoja informativa de la Operación Furia Épica, 6 de abril de 2026Comienza el 28 de febrero de 2026 a la 1:15 am; los activos incluyen portaaviones de propulsión nuclear, F-18, F-35, EA-18G, E-2D y MH-60; más de 13.000 objetivos alcanzados; más de 155 buques iraníes dañados o destruidos.
- Revista de las Fuerzas Aéreas y Espaciales: MUNDO — Furia épicaResumen de la campaña; derribo por fuego amigo de tres F-15E de la USAF por un F/A-18 kuwaití; no se proporcionan cifras de pérdidas de la Armada.
- MiGFlug Afterburner: 39 aviones perdidos: el precio total de Epic FuryLista detallada de pérdidas; no aparece ningún avión de la Armada de los Estados Unidos.
Cifras verificadas el 1 de octubre de 2026. Back to the United States Naval Aviation.