Airstrike on Udbina Air Base

Udbina air strike
Part of Operation Deny Flight

A French Jaguar over the Adriatic Sea
Date21 November 1994
Location44°33′25″N 15°46′29″E / 44.55694°N 15.77472°E / 44.55694; 15.77472
Result NATO victory
Belligerents

 NATO

 Serbian Krajina
Commanders and leaders
United States Leighton W. Smith Republic of Serbian Krajina Milan Martić
Republic of Serbian Krajina Ratko Dopuđa
Units involved
United States United States Air Force
United States United States Marine Corps
United Kingdom Royal Air Force
France French Air Force
Netherlands Royal Netherlands Air Force
Serbian Army of Krajina
Strength
39 attack aircraft
16 aircraft in supporting role
Anti-aircraft defenses
Casualties and losses
None 2 killed
Several wounded
2 anti-aircraft batteries
1 SA-6 missile site
airstrip destroyed

On 21 November 1994, NATO aircraft taking part of Operation Deny Flight carried out an airstrike on the airbase of Udbina, Croatia, then part of the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Krajina. The Serbian Army of Krajina, through its 105th Aviation Brigade, had been launching air attacks on neighbour Bosnia and Herzegovina from the base in support of allied Serbian forces there, especially during the siege of Bihać. NATO forces intervened in order to deter further attacks. Two anti-aircraft SA-2 missile sites that the Serbs had used to attack Bihac in the ground-to-ground mode and to engage NATO aircraft were also destroyed in the following days. The bombing of Udbina was the largest air combat operation in Europe since World War II, and the largest combat operation in NATO's history up to that time.