"John Walker" wrote:
Jukka O. Kauppinen
wrote in
message ...

Associate asked interesting question.

Is there any kind of listing of "modern" jet
aces? And are any of those
in service today?

I'd guess best bet are the Israelis. Elsewhere
some are from Vietnam
(US, Vietnam, Russian?) and what else?

There was air to air fighting at Eritrean-Etiopian
war but I'd dare to
guess that total losses can be counted with
one hand?

I'd limit the list to piloted aircraft also
(no missiles, drones or
choppers).

jok

Perhaps the Iranians and Iraqis may have generated
some high-scoring pilots?
There's a recent Osprey book about Iranian F4
units but I haven't looked at
it in detail.

John



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I have the Osprey book. On ACIG.org it has a list of IRIAF kills: an A.
Hoda of the IRIAF's 61st TFW in an F-4E scored five kills; but it took the
man eight years to do it. Another pilot, J. Zandi, scored five kills as an
F-14 pilot with 81st TFW (3x Mirage F-1, two MiG-23), over the eight-year
war. Perhaps others made ace, but still a lot of gaps in info.

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