Every war the Tanzania Air Force Command has fought
The Ugandan raids of September 1972 are included although no Tanzanian air response is recorded: the air wing then had no fighters. The air war of 1978–79 is known chiefly from secondary works, above all Cooper and Fontanellaz, given here only as cited on Wikipedia; a 2014 newspaper account of three Tanzanian aircraft hit by their own SA-2 missiles has not been confirmed elsewhere, and whether F-7s flew in the war is disputed. 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 Ugandan raids on Bukoba and Mwanza in 1972 to the fall of Kampala in 1979.
| Конфликт | Годы | Против | Основной самолет | Вылазки | Самолет потерян | |
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| Ugandan air raids of September 1972Bukoba and MwanzaTPDF (no air arm combat role recorded) | 1972 | Уганда | ||||
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No Tanzanian air response is recorded; the TPDF moved ground units to the border. In September 1972 Ugandan exiles crossed from Tanzania in an attempt to overthrow Idi Amin and were defeated. Amin blamed President Julius Nyerere for backing them and, between 18 and 20 September 1972, sent the Uganda Army Air Force to bomb Bukoba and Mwanza, saying it was striking insurgent camps. Between 9 and 20 Tanzanian civilians were killed. The Tanzanian air wing was then seven years old and had no fighters: its first F-6s arrived in June 1973 and its first fighter squadron was formed the same year from 48 pilots trained in China. The sources checked record no Tanzanian air response in 1972, so this entry records what the service could not yet do rather than an air campaign. Исход The exile invasion of Uganda failed; the raids exposed Tanzania’s lack of air defence. Casualty figures vary between sources (9–20). The link between the raids and the fighter purchases of 1973–74 is a reading of the dates, not a stated government position.
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| Uganda–Tanzania Warthe Kagera WarAir Wing of the TPDF Air Defence Command | 1978–1979 | Uganda and Libya | MiG-21MF, Shenyang F-6, Shenyang F-5 / FT-5 | |||
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Air defence of north-western Tanzania and strikes inside Uganda, including fuel depots at Kampala, Jinja and Tororo after the Libyan raid on Mwanza. Ugandan forces crossed into the Kagera Salient in October 1978. Ugandan MiGs bombed Bukoba on 18 October, doing little damage, and in the following days crossed Tanzanian airspace freely, met only by what Wikipedia’s sources call inconsequential anti-aircraft fire. Tanzania mobilised. According to Cooper and Fontanellaz, as cited on Wikipedia, its air defence command then had about 1,000 people, 14 MiG-21MFs at Mwanza and Shenyang F-5s and F-6s at Ngerengere, plus SA-3 missiles. Later Ugandan attempts to hit Tanzanian rocket launchers failed in the face of effective anti-aircraft fire, and the Uganda Army Air Force suffered such losses in February 1979 that it was effectively eliminated as a fighting force. Libya sent troops and aircraft to support Amin: on 29 March 1979 a single Libyan Tu-22 bombed Mwanza, missed its fuel-depot target and hit a game reserve. Tanzanian jets answered by attacking fuel depots at Kampala, Jinja and Tororo. At Entebbe on 6–7 April hundreds of Ugandan air force personnel surrendered, most Ugandan aircraft were destroyed or captured, and a captured MiG-21MF was taken into Tanzanian service. Wikipedia’s Tanzania Air Force Command article sums up the air war as the nominally weaker Tanzanian force defeating the stronger Ugandan one. Исход Kampala fell on 10–11 April 1979 and Amin’s government collapsed; the Uganda Army Air Force was effectively destroyed and many of its aircraft captured. Detailed air-to-air claims and Tanzanian loss figures come from secondary works (chiefly Cooper and Fontanellaz, 2015) that could not be read directly; they are given here only as cited on Wikipedia. Whether F-7s flew in the war is disputed (see the fleet notes). Ugandan and Libyan casualty figures (about 1,000 Ugandans killed and 3,000 captured, more than 600 Libyans killed) are Wikipedia’s summary and are not air force figures.
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Все цифры проверены.
- TPDF: Kamandi ya Jeshi la Anga (Air Force Command page)Official Swahili name; pilot training abroad (Israel, West Germany) from 1964; transport flying from 1969 with four Otters and Caribous; 48 fighter trainees graduated in China in 1973, forming the first fighter squadron; roles; list of past commanders; Maj Gen Shabani Mani from 23 August 2021.
Данные проверены 01.10.2026. Back to the Tanzania Air Force Command.