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...okay, this is simple. At least I hope it is. Throughout the years since post-WWII, there have probably been numerous times that different air forces have had their aircraft up in close proximity and armed, or at least in a high state of readiness and could have brushed up against each other but for timing or some other reason didn't.

I would point out the RAAF Hornets that were, for a few days, running the CAP over Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 while there were still some slight remnants of the IrAF around.
Or the Canadian Air Force which ran many CAP missions over Serbia during the air war in the 90s.

Such engagements that actually happened that I could point out would be...

...the Dutch F-16MLU's successful air-to-air kill of a Yugoslav MiG-29.

And the engagement in the Gulf of Sidra in 1989 when two F-14s downed two Libyan MiG-23 Floggers.

I'm just wondering what other possible dogfights people may have had rattling around in their heads.
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