Operation Deliberate Force | |||||||
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Part of the NATO intervention in Bosnia | |||||||
A US Air Force F-16C aircraft returns to Aviano AB, Italy, from a mission in support of NATO airstrikes against the Army of the Republika Srpska |
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Belligerents | |||||||
UNPROFOR |
Republika Srpska | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
/ Leighton Smith / Bernard Janvier Sir Mark Mans |
Ratko Mladić Radislav Krstić |
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Strength | |||||||
400 aircraft 5,000 military personnel 500 French peacekeepers 320 British peacekeepers Dutch 1e Mortiercompagnie, Korps Mariniers 12 105mm guns 8 155mm howitzers 12 British Warrior AFVs |
80,000 soldiers | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
1 Mirage 2000N shot down 2 pilots POW |
338 different targets hit, most of them destroyed. 25–27 soldiers killed | ||||||
27 Bosnian Serb civilians killed |
Strategic NATO victory
/ Leighton Smith
/ Michael E. Ryan
/ Stuart Peach