Republic of Korea Navy aviation (Naval Air Command) combat record

Todas as operações realizadas pela aviação naval da Coreia do Sul

The arm’s war record is short and mostly small-scale. Its role in the Korean War rests on a single aircraft, and its Vietnam service is that of the Marine Corps aviation group it absorbed in 1973. The sinking of a North Korean infiltration boat in the East Sea on 13 August 1983 is given by the South Korean account; no North Korean statement on it was found. The Lynx actions off Somalia are given as Wikipedia records them. 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 a single Texan in the Korean War to the Lynx over the Samho Jewelry in 2011.

Conflito Anos Contra Aeronave principal Missões Aeronave perdida
A Guerra da CoreiaA Guerra de Libertação da Pátria na Coreia do NorteROK Navy aviation section (Jinhae) 1950–1953 Coreia do Norte e República Popular da China T-6 Texan (Haechwiho)

An aviation section formed at Jinhae in April 1951 and flew a single rebuilt T-6, the Haechwiho, from August 1951. What missions it flew is not recorded in the sources reached.

South Korea and the United Nations date the war to North Korea’s attack across the 38th parallel on 25 June 1950; North Korea’s official account says the South attacked first. The South Korean navy had no aircraft when the war began. Korean Wikipedia dates the navy’s aviation section to April 1951 at Jinhae and says the Haechwiho, a T-6 Texan rebuilt for naval duties, was commissioned that August as the first aircraft modified in Korea. Its war is otherwise undocumented in the sources reached.

Resultado O armistício de 27 de julho de 1953 pôs fim aos combates sem um tratado de paz.

The arm’s wartime role rests on Korean Wikipedia; no sortie record was found.

Voando para
ROK Navy aviation section (Jinhae)
Onde
Southern Korea
Ao lado de
Comando dos Estados Unidos e das Nações Unidas
Contra
Coreia do Norte e República Popular da China
Aeronave
T-6 Texan (Haechwiho)
Perdas
None recorded in the sources reached.
Fontes
Korean Wikipedia · Wikipédia
A Guerra do VietnãMarine Corps aviation in VietnamRepublic of Korea Marine Corps aviation group (merged into the naval air arm in 1973) 1965–1973 Vietnã do Norte e Viet Cong L-19 Bird Dog, L-20 Beaver

Flew observation, leaflet-dropping and fire-support missions with light aircraft for the Korean marine formation.

About 350,000 South Koreans served in Vietnam between September 1964 and March 1973. The Blue Dragon marine formation landed in October 1965 (some sources give early 1965). Its aviation, the marine air group formed in 1963 with L-19 and L-20 spotter aircraft, flew observation, leaflet and fire-support missions, according to Namuwiki; Korean Wikipedia calls the unit the first South Korean air unit deployed abroad. The marine aviation that came home was absorbed into the navy’s re-formed air unit on 1 May 1973, which is why Naval Air Command counts Vietnam in its own history.

Resultado South Korean forces left Vietnam by March 1973; the marine aviation group was merged into the navy’s air unit the same year.

The exact dates and size of the marine aviation detachment in Vietnam were not confirmed.

Voando para
Republic of Korea Marine Corps aviation group (merged into the naval air arm in 1973)
Onde
Vietnã do Sul
Ao lado de
South Vietnam and United States
Contra
Vietnã do Norte e Viet Cong
Aeronave
L-19 Bird Dog, L-20 Beaver
Perdas
Aviation losses not confirmed. About 5,099 South Koreans were killed in Vietnam in all.
Fontes
Namuwiki · Korean Wikipedia · Wikipédia
O naufrágio de um barco de infiltração norte-coreanoEast Sea, 13 August 1983ROK Navy air unit (destroyer Gangwon’s helicopter) 1983 Coréia do Norte Alouette III 0

An Alouette III from the destroyer Gangwon fired an AS-12 missile at a fast North Korean infiltration boat, which was sunk.

By South Korea’s account as given on Namuwiki, the boat, disguised as a Japanese fishing vessel and capable of about 40 knots, was the mother ship of four agents who had landed near Wolseong on the Gyeongbuk coast on 5 August 1983. When it was found on 13 August it exchanged fire with the South Korean forces and was hit by an AS-12 fired from the Alouette III of the destroyer Gangwon, a Chungbuk-class ship. Namuwiki calls it the only confirmed combat kill by a South Korean navy or air force aircraft since the Korean War.

Resultado The boat was sunk at about 11:40, by the South Korean account.

The account is South Korea’s; no North Korean statement on the episode was found. The "only kill" claim is Namuwiki’s.

Voando para
ROK Navy air unit (destroyer Gangwon’s helicopter)
Onde
East Sea, off the Gyeongbuk coast
Ao lado de
Sem força aérea aliada
Contra
Coréia do Norte
Aeronave
Alouette III
Perdas
0 aeronavesNo South Korean aircraft lost. Three North Korean bodies were recovered, according to Namuwiki.
Fontes
Namuwiki
Combate à pirataria na costa da Somália (Unidade Cheonghae)Golfo de AdenROK Navy (ship-borne Lynx) 2009–presente Somali pirates Lynx Mk.99 and Super Lynx Mk.99A 0

Lynx helicopters on the escorting destroyers protect merchant ships and deter pirate skiffs.

The Cheonghae Unit was formed on 3 March 2009 and ROKS Munmu the Great sailed on 13 March 2009. Its destroyers carry Lynx helicopters; in May 2009 a Lynx was launched to protect the Korean merchant ship Dabaksol until the pirates attacking it fled, according to Wikipedia. The most important action came in January 2011 (see the next entry).

Resultado Continuing; each rotation of about 300 people sails with a destroyer and its helicopter.

Sortie and rotation totals after 2012 were not found in the sources reached.

Voando para
ROK Navy (ship-borne Lynx)
Onde
Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea
Ao lado de
Combined Maritime Forces
Contra
Somali pirates
Aeronave
Lynx Mk.99 and Super Lynx Mk.99A
Perdas
0 aeronavesNo aircraft losses recorded in the sources reached.
Fontes
Wikipédia
Operação Aurora do Golfo de Adenthe Samho Jewelry rescueROK Navy (Lynx of ROKS Choe Yeong) 2011 Somali pirates Lince 0

The destroyer’s Lynx engaged a pirate skiff on 18 January and fired on the hijacked tanker during the boarding of 21 January.

Pirates seized the chemical tanker Samho Jewelry on 15 January 2011. On 18 January the Lynx of ROKS Choe Yeong was sent after pirates in a motorboat heading for a Mongolian ship; all four were killed or went overboard, according to Wikipedia. A first boarding attempt that day was called off after three commandos were wounded. In the dawn assault of 21 January the helicopter fired on the tanker before the commandos went aboard. The crew of 21 — eight South Koreans, eleven Burmese and two Indonesians — was freed.

Resultado All 21 crew rescued; eight pirates killed and five captured, per Wikipedia.

Which shots killed which pirates is not established; figures are Wikipedia’s.

Voando para
ROK Navy (Lynx of ROKS Choe Yeong)
Onde
Mar Arábico
Ao lado de
Sem força aérea aliada
Contra
Somali pirates
Aeronave
Lince
Perdas
0 aeronaves · 0 mortosNo South Korean deaths; three commandos were wounded on 18 January and the tanker’s captain, Seok Hae-gyun, was shot.
Fontes
Wikipédia · Namuwiki

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Fontes e Leitura Complementar

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  • Namuwiki: 슈퍼 링스12 submarinos Mk.99 entregues a partir de 1990 e 13 Mk.99A entre 1999 e 2000; sonar de imersão; acidentes perto de Chujado em abril de 2010, um pouso forçado na água em 17 de abril de 2010 atribuído a fraude de manutenção e o acidente no Mar do Leste em 26 de setembro de 2016 com três tripulantes mortos; atuação no Golfo de Aden.
  • Namuwiki: 알루에트 IIIDoze mísseis AS-12 foram entregues entre 1977 e 1979 para os destróieres da classe Chungbuk; seu papel na linha de frente terminou com a chegada do submarino Lynx em 1991, e passaram a ser utilizados em treinamento a partir de 2007, sendo aposentados em dezembro de 2019; um míssil AS-12 disparado do destróier Alouette, do submarino Gangwon, afundou uma embarcação de infiltração norte-coreana no Mar do Leste em 13 de agosto de 1983; três corpos foram recuperados.
  • Namuwiki: 해병대 항공단Aviação da Marinha: unidade de observação em 1958, grupo de aviação em março de 1963 com L-19 e L-20; voos de observação, distribuição de panfletos e apoio de fogo no Vietnã; transferida para a Marinha em 1973; o Grupo de Aviação do Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais foi reformado em Pohang em 1º de dezembro de 2021 com o MUH-1 Marineon; o acidente de 17 de julho de 2018 resultou em cinco mortes.

Dados verificados em 01/10/2026. Back to the Republic of Korea Navy aviation (Naval Air Command).