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	От	Estel
	К	EAA
	Дата	25.01.2007 04:57:35
	Рубрики	Современность;

Ответ. Переводить некогда.

I'm not a lawyer but to my knowledge it would most likely be a combat loss. Pretty much any loss due to enemy action, either direct or indirect, is a combat loss.

In that case, it seems to be a fairly easy argument to say it's a combat loss.

For that matter, even if there was no manpad launch at all but the crew packed it in while carrying out a combat mission, that would also in general be considered a combat loss. Only political bullcrap and being too weak minded to classify high risk missions as "combat missions" would change that. I have over 100 "combat hours" where not a single shot was fired, and to my knowledge if I'd gone down over enemy territory during those missions, it would have been a combat loss.

That said, I can see situations where senior leadership or politicians would want to portray it one way or another, if there is some sort of overriding interest at stake. As a hypothetical example, an aircraft shot down in a location where it doesn't belong may be listed as an accident, especially if necessary to protect a classified operation.

But in general and as you said, purely hypothetically, I think a crash while evading an enemy missile would be considered a combat loss.

eagl