By: alertken - 31st October 2007 at 09:13
The bible is Vic Flintham, Air Wars & Aircraft, Arms&Armour,1989:
P.98: (Port)Guinea(Bissau): 23/3/1973: 2 FAP G.91 (R-4, Esq.121) “were shot down by (PAIGC guerillas’) SA-7s and a third (was) lost 6 weeks later”. P.115: Esq.93, Angola; P.117 “a G.91 was claimed as shot down” (24/11/1975). P.121 Esq.502, 702, Mozambique: no losses noted.
By: Jotapicos - 28th October 2007 at 22:56
Off course they did, in almost 10 years of combat, a lot of weapons were used (and some Fiats shot down)…
And because of that we won a couple Silver Tiger’s (1980 and 85Tiger Meet exercices) using Fiats againts “better” equiped countries (F-15, F-16, F-4) :diablo:
Regards:
João
By: Arabella-Cox - 28th October 2007 at 21:03
I believe they did yes. There was an excellant article in ‘Air Enthusiast’ a few years back. I can dig it out if your interested…?
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October 28, 2007 at 8:27 pm