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Jose,
Yes, I am a Russian linguist and that SURE helps out in this sort of thing!
As for exact losses, here are the summary numbers I currently have from all sources that I can cite by day/date/type and in most cases (Soviet) pilot involved.
Aircraft: Combat Loss Non-Combat Loss
A-20G 1 -
IL-12 1 -
LA-11 - 3
Yak-17UTI 1 -
MiG-15/MiG-15bis 315 32
Chinese -- I have a total of 68 losses from Chinese sources (thanks to Xiaoming Zhang!)
La-11 3
Tu-2 5
MiG-15/MiG-15bis 60
Korean -- I can pretty much verify that these were lost, based on "smoking holes in the ground":
IL-10 9
La-9 5
MiG-15/MiG-15bis 1*
Po-2 6
Yak-9P 28
Yak-18 3
* -- While the Koreans state they flew combat missions, the actual reports from both Russian and Chinese sources are a bit thin. One Russian source states that after Kim Il Sung lost 75% of his air force of 239 aircraft in less than 10 weeks he did not want to lose any of the new MiG-15s and as such strictly curtailed their use. "Onesies" and "Twosies" did fly with Chinese formations, but the Chinese apparently didn't want these pariahs near them, either.
Overall that amounts to 439 confirmed (by both sides) air-to-air losses.
Cookie Sewell
AMPS
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